Sysadmin:Sysadmin Info

To Do

• Write instructions for backing up database via ssh into [root]/jfa/backups/db with date suffix "-yyyy-mm-dd".
• Write and install cron job to backup database daily into [root]/jfa/backups/db with date suffix "-yyyy-mm-dd".
• Setup cache, use memcache? $wgMainCacheType =
• Setup email on jfawiki (wiki.justiceforanimals.org).
• Setup mediawiki instance at dev.justiceforanimals.org/wiki.
  • Why in subdirectory wiki?
    • There may be problems if we don't: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory
    • Future flexibility to install other other apps under domain
  • Keep the WP site at dev. for now
  • Dev.justiceforanimals.org will have it's own .htaccess
  • Staging and Production will come later

Migration Notes

• When migrating, do a search replace on the "https://whatever.xyz" part of the name, and change appropriately. The sidebar in particular will likely have absolute URLs because URLs with and "&" will not work in the sidebar if they are relative.

Handy Links

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

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

Include js and css files in a MediaWiki App

• 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/