{"id":769,"date":"2017-02-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ml2solutions.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2021-05-02T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:08:51","slug":"how-to-upgrade-mediawiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ml2solutions.com\/websites\/how-to-upgrade-mediawiki\/","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade MediaWiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently running version 1.25.3 and want to upgrade to the latest version which is 1.28.0.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Putty and connect to server<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 cd domains<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 cd domainname.com<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 cd html<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 wget <a href=\"https:\/\/releases.wikimedia.org\/mediawiki\/1.28\/mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz\">https:\/\/releases.wikimedia.org\/mediawiki\/1.28\/mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 rm mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz<\/li>\n<li>rename new folder to \u201cmediawiki\u201d in FTP<\/li>\n<li>copy the following files or folders from the old installation to the new installation\n<ul>\n<li>LocalSettings.php<\/li>\n<li>images folder\n<ul>\n<li>In FTP, confirm file permission is 755 and apply recurrisevly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>extensions folder\n<ul>\n<li>GoogleAnalytics<\/li>\n<li>WikiBanner<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<li>EmbedVideo<\/li>\n<li>SimpleBatchUpload<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Check if extensions have been updated since last upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Backup database<\/li>\n<li>In FTP, rename \u201cw\u201d to \u201cwikiold\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In FTP, rename \u201cmediawiki\u201d to \u201cw\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In SSH, open \u201cw\u201d folder<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 cd maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Type \u2013 php update.php\n<ul>\n<li>may need to run using &#8220;php-latest&#8221; instead of &#8220;php&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Test upgrade\n<ul>\n<li>login as admin and check Special Pages \u2013&gt; Version<\/li>\n<li>confirm pages load<\/li>\n<li>confirm images are visible<\/li>\n<li>confirm embedded videos run<\/li>\n<li>confirm ads are displayed<\/li>\n<li>If get error message of\u00a0Fatal exception of type MWException, the issue is running on Cloudflare.\u00a0 Following the instructions in this blog post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ml2solutions.com\/websites\/mediawiki-and-cloudflare\/\">MediaWiki and Cloudflare<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Download &#8220;wikiold&#8221; folder as a backup<\/li>\n<li>Delete old folder\n<ul>\n<li>Type \u2013 rm \u2013r wikiold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently running version 1.25.3 and want to upgrade to the latest version which is 1.28.0. 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