Tech Geek wrote:
> I am using MediaWiki 1.12 installed on Linux machine.
You should be using MediaWiki 1.16...
> We have been using MediaWiki for over a year with the file upload variables
> set to their default values. Here is what the current mediawiki image
> folder looks like:
> wikiserver:~# ls /var/www/wiki/images
> 0 2 4 6 8 a b d e gnuplot thumb
> 1 3 5 7 9 archive c deleted f temp
>
> Now we need to change upload directory path to something more generic like
> "uploads" with the hash strcture instead of "images" directory.
...
> Now I am thinking to have the following in my LocalSettings.php file:
> $wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/uploads";
> $wgUploadDirectory = "{$IP}/uploads/";
> $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
>
> So far everything looks good and the new files uploaded will work just fine.
>
> Now my question (s):
> What about the links/path to the files that have been upload previously? I
> am guessing that those will break since they reside in
> /var/lib/mediawiki/images directory. Do I need to move them to the new
> upload directory /var/lib/mediawiki/uploads ? What about the existing
> articles that link to those files in the images directory? Is there a script
> which will do the automated image link building?
>
> Thanks
The articles know just the image name. The is generated from that so
just moving everything by it should fix it (if you uploaded into uploads
a new version of a file which existed in images you may need to manually
clean it).
As you also changed from $wgHashedUploadDirectory to false, you will
need to move the files from the childs to the uploads root. There's a
script for moving files into hashed folders if needed, too.
The cached pages may still contain pointers to the old location, but
changing LocalSettings.php by defaults updates $wgCacheEpoch forcing to
rerender them.
If someone manually linked to the old location (eg. where they should
have used Media:), well, that link will break. You can use
Special:LinkSearch for the wiki, and/or place a redirect from images to
uploads.
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