Ticket #394 (closed maintenance: fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.18.1

Reported by: chris Owned by: chris
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Mediawiki Keywords:
Cc: laura, ed Estimated Number of Hours: 1.0
Add Hours to Ticket: 0 Billable?: yes
Total Hours: 1.6

Description

We are still on 1.17, see ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18

Change History

comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by chris

  • Add Hours to Ticket changed from 0.0 to 1.6
  • Total Hours changed from 0.0 to 1.6

Using the upgrade script wiki:DevelopmentServer#Mediawiki

The update script first does a backup of the !MySQL database, this took 40mins to run on kiwi and resulted of a load average of 15... While it was running I also did some work on ticket:393

mediawiki-upgrade 1.18.1

After the upgrade ​https://wiki.dev.transitionnetwork.org/Special:Version reports:

MediaWiki 1.18.1
SyntaxHighlight (Version 1.0.8.10) (r113615)
FCKeditor (Version 1.0.1) (r113615)

The live server before the upgrade:

MediaWiki 1.17.0
SyntaxHighlight (Version 1.0.8.10) (r90577)
FCKeditor (Version 1.0.1) (r90577)

One issue was a new gpg key was needed, live server upgrade:

gpg --recv-key 9D3BB7B0
mediawiki-upgrade 1.18.1

Live server issues were resolved with:

chown -R www-data:www-data /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org/www/cache/

Live server after upgrade:

MediaWiki 1.18.1
SyntaxHighlight (Version 1.0.8.10) (r113617)
FCKeditor (Version 1.0.1) (r113617)
​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Special:Version

Docs updated, wiki:DevelopmentServer#Mediawiki and wiki:NewLiveServer#mediawiki

comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by chris

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed
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