Obsolete:MediaWiki deployment setup

This page contains historical information. It may be outdated or unreliable.

2009

Source

• wmf-deployment branch contains MediaWiki, extensions, and a few extra local files
• wmf-config directory should hold most (but not *quite* all) custom files w/ config files
• Additional local-subdirectories:
  • cache
    • where our .cdb files go for interwiki & trusted xff
  • lib
    • contains checkout of geshi
  • m
    • symlink to maintenance (can we put this in svn?)

The wmf-config directory now lives in a local svn repo. Don't forget to check in your changes!

Surprises?

For extra files still being pulled over see uncommitted files in live working copy.

Switching in use

• live-1.5/MWVersion.php selects the actual source dir to be used.
  • (This was used in the 1.4->1.5 transition to have some wikis run from the old codebase until they were upgraded.)
  • (Also used to have test run from NFS. Test is currently running from wmf-deployment on NFS.)

Other things needing fix?

• in docroots:
  • "skins-1.5" directory currently points to php-1.5 directly
• in live-1.5:
  • "extensions" same

Consider better name than 'live-1.5' :)

May need to switch Apache configs when changing that

• Many site scripts probably use /home/wikipedia/common/php-1.5 path explicitly
  • symlink or fix scripts?