I’m sure some people find command line simple and the “best practice”, I get that…I’m just not there yet.
I enjoy website building and have confidence that I can teach myself almost anything, but I like to keep things simple when I can.  I successfully avoided the command line, which makes me somewhat nervous and certainly not in my comfort zone. I thought I would share the process I used, which is not exactly the recommended process on the MediaWiki website, but I found it easy and straight forward. I finally decided to jump in this week and get it done. Losing hours of my life to troubleshooting and rebuilding is not something I ever want to repeat.Īnyway, I’ve procrastinated for a while now on this MediaWiki upgrade. I’ve been burned from nightmare Drupal CMS upgrades in the past.
#MEDIAWIKI UPGRADE MANUAL#
Generally, I like to stay on top of upgrades for the security patches, new features, and bug fixes but the manual upgrade process makes me nervous. If you have questions about this planned database migration, please contact and reference UW Web Hosting Upgrade in your subject line.I run a relatively small wiki using MediaWiki hosted on a Dreamhost server. (If your area does not have either of these positions, you can reach out to Creative Communications to inquire about hiring web development support). If you are unfamiliar with working with PHP script and a test environment, then UW Information Technology recommends that you consult with your local IT or your local web developer for support.
#MEDIAWIKI UPGRADE HOW TO#
We recommend you review the list of changes to functions in PHP 8.2.5 and how to access the test environment.If the website does not have the current version of WordPress and Drupal, then the owner/administrator may want to test PHP 8.2.5 on the website in our test environment before August 1, 2023.Note that these and newer versions of these all support PHP 8.1.5: WordPress 4.9+, Drupal 7.71+, and MediaWiki 1.35+. Current versions of popular web applications like WordPress and Drupal, fully support PHP 8.2.5.Please review the below for information and action items to take before October 20, 2021, on PHP 8.2.5, as well as information on the potential effects of the server upgrade and migration on your website. How will this PHP upgrade and server upgrade and migration affect your website? If your website doesn’t use a content management system, documentation platform or PHP programming script, then this upgrade will not affect your website.
If you do not use a database server, then the database server portion of this upgrade will not impact your website.
How will this PHP upgrade affect your website? Owners and administrators of content management systems like WordPress and Drupal and collaboration and documentation platforms like MediaWiki will be able to take advantage of significant performance improvements when UW Information Technology (UW-IT) upgrades the UW Shared Web Hosting servers that host University websites to PHP version 8.2.5 beginning Augat 10:00 a.m.Īdditionally, over the next several weeks UW Information Technology will be migrating database servers to a new infrastructure with the most current version of MySQL, which will provide enhanced security and improved speed and performance. (Sent specifically to all non-student Shared Web Hosting Users) This message was sent to those who are owners or administrators of a website hosted on UW Shared Web Hosting infrastructure using one the following web domains:, , or.
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