How to Update

1. Run all three backup scrips located in ~/backup/bin

These are named:

 wikiFilebackup.sh
 wikiXMLbackup.sh
 wikisqlbackup.sh

2. Make a temp directors in the root

 cd ~
 mkdir mwtemp
 cd mwtemp

3. wget the latest tar.gz from media wiki, for example for 1.20.1

 wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.1.tar.gz

3. gunzip and tar -xf the tar ball

 tar -zxvf mediawiki-1.20.1.tar.gz

4. cp -r [DIRECTORY WITH FILES] [PUBLIC HTML DIRECTORY], for example

 cp -r ~/mwtemp/mediawiki-1.20.1/* [PUBLIC HTML DIR]

5. run [PUBLIC HTML DIRECTORY]/maintenance/update.php

using

  /usr/local/php53/bin/php update.php

6. Check Special:Version to make sure things worked.

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