do you have the access to cron? Maybe you can schedule the running of update.php script? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Mickey Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm getting ready to upgrade our (hosted) corporate wiki from 1.161.1 to > 1.21.1. > > I have done an upgrade using the web interface on a local copy of our wiki - > this worked fine. The docs suggest that with a "large" wiki this could fail > due to timeouts, that the command line upgrade script is preferred, and that > if you don't have command line access you should change hosting providers to > one that allows command line access. > > Changing hosts is not always an option, but it seems to me that you ought to > be able to upgrade the DB on a local machine, using the command line script > if necessary, then import that new DB structure (and data) on your host. Has > anyone tried this, and is there some reason it does not/would not work? > > Also, I have found that although I don't have command line access, I can run > php scripts as cron jobs. Is there any reason the upgrade script could not > be run this way? For example, is there any point at which the upgrade script > requires/requests user input? > > I have not yet tried to upgrade our hosted wiki, and I think it's likely > that the web interface will work fine, I just want to be aware of all > possible safety nets in case problems do arise. > > > Thanks > > -- > Mickey Feldman > > Vigil Health Solutions Inc. > 2102- 4464 Markham Street > Victoria, BC Canada > V8Z 7X8 > 250.383.6900 > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
