Upgrade a wiki
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Upgrade a wiki Organic Design procedure |
Shell in and change to the wiki's directory in /var/www/wikis.
Put the site down for maintenance by adding $wgSiteDown = true; to it's LocalSettings.php file.
Update wiki symlink to point to the new code-base.
Upgrading a wiki to a more recent version involves running the update.php maintenance script. Make sure that you have created an AdminSettings.php first.
For information on how to do this, see Run a wiki maintenance script
Illegal mix of collations error
If the wiki has DPL running on it you may have an error similar such as:
- Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) and (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) for operation 'concat'
This problem can be solved by looping through all the tables and setting their character set to utf8 using the change the character-set of a wiki database procedure. but first you're best to get rid of the database view that DPL uses with drop prefix_dpl_clview, then change the character sets as shown in the procedure, and then put the DPL view back as shown below (from the DPL manual):
