[DONE] Wiki server upgrade to 1.18.2

[maik]

Dear all,

I just performed an upgrade of my Sandbox wiki http://sandbox.maikschulz.de which is a copy of wiki.alioth.net from version 1.15.1 to version1.18.2. This is in preparation of upgrading wiki.alioth.net. After the upgrade, I will look at installing extensions.

The sandbox wiki is open for writing, can you please take a look if something is broken? The upgrade went smooth, I tested changing pages and uploading files. Note that the copy is some weeks old, so very recently added users do not exist there.

In case someone is interested and would like to scrutinize, I performed the following commands:

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cd /srv/www/sandbox/
wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.2.tar.gz
mkdir public_html2
cd public_html2/
tar xvzf ../mediawiki-1.18.2.tar.gz --strip-components=1
rm -rf images/
rsync -avz ../public_html/images .
cp ../LocalSettings.php .
cd ..
mv public_html public_html.old
mv public_html2 public_html
cp public_html.old/skins/common/images/th_elitewikilogo.png public_html/skins/common/images/
chown -R www-data:oolite public_html
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
cd public_html/maintenance/
php update.php

[maik]

If there are no objections I will upgrade the MediaWiki installation over the weekend to 1.18.2. I'll post here before I start and after I finish and will set the wiki to read-only during the time.

[maik]

Advance notice: I will start the upgrade process at 16h CET.

Update: I'll start now. Please do not try to modify the wiki until I post here that it is safe to do so again.

Update 2: I do not have sufficient rights to restart the web server and have to wait for Winston to do that. In the meantime, the backup wiki is accessible at http://wiki.maikschulz.de. It has a copy of the main server which I did just before I started the upgrade.

[SandJ]

BUMP! - because otherwise we don't see the updates.

[maik]

Update: The backup server http://wiki.maikschulz.de received the upgrade via the nightly sync. So you can see what the main server will look like once apache has been restarted. Haven't heard back from Winston yet though, so no word when this will happen.

[maik]

The main wiki server http://wiki.alioth.net is now available again, upgraded to version 1.18.2. You can continue using it as before.

[sdrubble]

There was an issue with the wiki, which the upgrade has apparently solved:

The sidebar at the left now stays in its proper place, whereas its contents were previously sliding all the way down to the bottom of the page.

Thx and cheers

[maik]

Yes, there are minor changes in the used skin. Another one I noticed is in the sortable tables, e.g. the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki], where the sort arrows are fixed in place now. For the very narrow "C" column this results in the arrows overlaying the "C".

I'll wait a few days to see if there are any problems and then start activating the extensions that came with the new version. Most notably for wiki authors, the ParserFunctions extension comes bundled with MediaWiki since version 1.18. So no reason not to use it now

[maik]

I activated the ParserFunctions extension now.