Mediawiki 1.39 upgrade

Environment

• Ubuntu ARM 18.04
• Apache with PHP-FPM

Disable the website

# disable the website sudo a2dissite wiki.conf sudo a2dissite kiwi.conf sc-reload apache2 # at the end, re-enable the website sudo a2ensite wiki.conf sudo a2ensite kiwi.conf sc-reload apache2

Install the version 1.39

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.1.tar.gz tar xf mediawiki-1.39.1.tar.gz cd /var/www # backup the previous version sudo mv wiki wiki.bak # copy the new mediawiki folder and needed files from previous install sudo mv -T mediawiki-1.39.1 wiki sudo cp -r wiki.bak/images/. wiki/images sudo cp -r wiki.bak/images-kiwi wiki/images-kiwi sudo mkdir wiki/cache-kiwi # copy the LocalSettings sudo cp wiki.bak/LocalSettings.php wiki # copy the custom extensions sudo cp -r wiki.bak/extensions/MyCustomExtension wiki/extensions # update the owner sudo chown -R root:root wiki sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wiki/cache wiki/cache-kiwi wiki/images wiki/images-kiwi

Upgrade the database

cd /var/www/wiki php maintenance/update.php

Clean

# delete unused folder sudo rm -rf mediawiki.bak