Sysadmin:Sysadmin Info

Implementation notes I make as I go.

Links

• Webfaction Failover https://blog.gingerlime.com/2012/webfaction-fail-over/

To Do

• write and install cron job to backup database daily into [root]/jfa/backups/db with date suffix "-yyyy-mm-dd"
• write shell script to run on localhost to download [root]/jfa/backups
• setup mediawiki instance at dev.justiceforanimals.org/wiki

How To

SSH

>ssh username@web542.webfaction.com >cd /home/gregfuller/webapps/jfawiki/ (for wiki.justiceforanimals.org)

Dump XML pages

>cd /home/gregfuller/webapps/jfawiki/maintenance >php72 dumpBackup.php --current >/home/gregfuller/webapps/jfawiki/jfa/backups/xml/jfawikidump-yyyy-mm-dd.xml FTP the file down to localhost

Backup Dababase into [root]/jfa/backups/db

ToDo

move [root]/jfa/backups offsite

ToDo

Including js and css files

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Snippets/Load_an_additional_JavaScript_or_stylesheet_file_on_all_pages

• done because login page on Refreshed theme doesn't load common.css and common.js

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1956/