Web Admin

How to install wordpress

Sometimes it is necessary to install a wordpress instance (for example in a VBOX for testing) and set it as a clone of the current remeis home page. Notes on how this is done are collected here

• Install apache2, mysql-server, php, and php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip
• Create database on new location (if necessary), dump old database, replace all old addresses with new! Otherwise multisite will not find the correct tables. mysqldump comes in handy.
• Copy website over (that is, everything in wordpress_multisite
• change config to access new database
• Important: enable rewrite module 'a2enmod rewrite' otherwise links will not work.

After this is done, fire up the web server and see if things are working!

New instance of mediawiki & update

Updating mediawiki is fairly simple (if it is not more than 2 LTS releases away). In principle: dump db, copy data files (this is mainly images/) and check extension updates. Then copy LocalSettings.php and try the update script. The settings for the image folder need to be writable by www-data and the setgid bit should be set. After that, everything should work.