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Contents 1 Exporting and importing MediaWiki XML dumps 1.1 Restoring Imported Pages Already Existing in the New Wiki 1.2 Restoring Images 1.2.1 About the Author - Arnold

Exporting and importing MediaWiki XML dumps

Reference Meta.MediaWiki.org Data Dumps

Prerequisites:

• Install the PHP scripting client

 sudo apt-get install php5-cli

• Copy Move the AdminSettings.sample file to AdminSettings.php

• Assign values to the $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword settings in the AdminSettings.php file in the wiki root. These values are required for running wiki/maintenance scripts.

cd /var/www/wiki/maintenance
sudo php dumpBackup.php --current --report=1 > /tmp/mywikidump.xml

cd /var/www/wiki/maintenance
sudo php importDump.php /tmp/mywikidump.xml

Restoring Imported Pages Already Existing in the New Wiki

This procedure is supposed to backup all of the pages. However, importing does not automatically make the pages from the backup "current" if these pages already exist in the new wiki. For example, the following pages are not made current (Media Wiki 1.11.0); and there may be other pages as well.

Main Page
Privacy policy
About
Disclaimers

Restoring Images

Copy the old images folder contents to the new /var/www/wiki/images folder

 php maintenance/rebuildImages.php --missing

About the Author - Arnold

The author is still a Linux novice and needs to put this article here so he can rebuild his own wiki.