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Obligatory Caution[edit]

s23/seti23 is not responsible for any damages or data loss you experience by following this tutorial.

What for?[edit]

Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down, stifling creativity and constructivness. Most of the creative energies are spent on making monotonous repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed page versions and IP blocking which is ineffective against multiple dynamic IP spam attacks. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki.

This tutorial assumes...[edit]

that you are somewhat familiar with:

using a *nix shell,
installing patches,
recompiling sourcecode,
and reinstalling the mediawiki installation.

Requirements[edit]

A working mediawiki installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch. (Yes, sadly you will need to upgrade to a these more recent branches, and only then patch and recompile). See Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Upgrading Mediawiki
The SpamBlacklist extension Download files here.

Please improve this section.

Upgrading Mediawiki[edit]

(If you have Version 1.4 or 1.5 skip this step)

Check out Upgrading Mediawiki
IMPORTANT: Make sure you read the Backup before you Upgrade step before you start this.

SpamBlacklist[edit]

Here you can find compatible blacklists or create your own, just like we have here in the s23 wiki --> Spam blacklist

meta.wikimedia blacklist

Please improve this section.

Backup before you Upgrade[edit]

Making a backup of a mediawiki installation is basically a four-step process. Copying the regular files, making a database backup,compressing the files and sending them to a remote backup location.

Copy "w" directory[edit]

1. If you follow the standard wikipedia way to hide "index.php" in URLs and your webserver's document root is /var/www/, you will have the wiki physically installed in /var/www/w and an alias for /var/www/wiki in your apache config. Hence, something like:

cp -r /var/www/w /home/backup/w_20051223

would be sufficient.

If you are not hiding index.php and you have installed your wiki to a physical directory /var/www/wiki or another place, change the path accordingly. (cp -r /path/to/your/wiki /path/to/your/backup)

Dump Database[edit]

2. To make a dump of the Mysql database, use the "mysqldump" command on a console.

mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb_20051223.sql

Compress Data[edit]

3. To save diskspace and bandwidth you can now compress the files, f.e. with .tar.gz (or zip).

tar zcvf wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz wikidb_20051223.sql

tar zcvf w_20051223.tar.gz /home/backup/w_20051223

Copy to remote location[edit]

4. Finally copy the files to a remote server, f.e. via scp (or ftp).

scp wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/

scp w_20051223.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/

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Beware![edit]

Keep in mind that your backup files will include passwords for the wiki database.

Before putting them in a public location consider editing LocalSettings.php (and possibly AdminSettings.php if existing).

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-<sup>Please drop a line on the [http://s23.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mediawiki_Upgrade_Tutorial_with_Spamblacklist_patch&action=edit talk page] with feedback or comments on this page</sup>
+<sup>'''Please drop a line on the [http://s23.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mediawiki_Upgrade_Tutorial_with_Spamblacklist_patch&action=edit talk page] with feedback or comments on this page'''</sup>
+==Obligatory Caution==
+s23/seti23 is not responsible for any damages or data loss you experience by following this tutorial.
 ===What for?===
-Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down and stifling creativity and constructivness with most of the energies spent on making  repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed versions and IP blocking which is ineffective since the attacks come from multiple IPs. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki.
+Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down, stifling creativity and constructivness. Most of the creative energies are spent on making monotonous repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed page versions and IP blocking which is ineffective against multiple dynamic IP spam attacks. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki.
+===This tutorial assumes...===
+that you are somewhat familiar with:
+*using a *nix shell,
+*installing patches,
+*recompiling sourcecode,
+*and reinstalling the mediawiki installation.
 ===Requirements===
+*A working [[mediawiki]] installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch. (Yes, sadly you will need to upgrade to a these more recent branches, and only then patch and recompile). See [[Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Upgrading Mediawiki]]
+*The [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension SpamBlacklist extension] Download files [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/#dirlist here].
 {{Expandsect}}
-A working [[mediawiki]] installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch.
+===Upgrading Mediawiki===
-The [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension SpamBlacklist extension] Download files [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/#dirlist here].
+(If you have Version 1.4 or 1.5 skip this step)
+Check out [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrading_MediaWiki Upgrading Mediawiki] <br>
-===SpamBlacklist===
+IMPORTANT: Make sure you read the [[Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Backup before you Upgrade|Backup before you Upgrade]] step before you start this.
-Hre you can find [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension#Compatible_Blacklists compatible blacklists] (or create your own, of course).
+===SpamBlacklist===
+Here you can find [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension#Compatible_Blacklists compatible blacklists] or create your own, just like we have here in the s23 wiki --> [[Spam blacklist]]
 [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist meta.wikimedia blacklist]
 {{Expandsect}}
 ===Backup before you Upgrade===
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 ==== Copy "w" directory ====
-If you follow the standard wikipedia way to hide "index.php" in [[URL]]s and your webserver's document root is /var/www/, you will have the wiki physically installed in /var/www/w and an alias to /var/www/wiki in your [[apache]] config. Hence, something like:
+. If you follow the standard wikipedia way to [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url hide "index.php" in URLs] and your webserver's document root is /var/www/, you will have the wiki physically installed in /var/www/w and an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url#Using_aliases_in_httpd.conf alias for /var/www/wiki] in your [[apache]] config. Hence, something like:
- cp -r /var/www/w /home/backup/w_20051223
+:<tt>'''cp -r /var/www/w /home/backup/w_20051223'''</tt>
+would be sufficient.
+If you are not hiding index.php and you have installed your wiki to a physical directory /var/www/wiki or another place, change the path accordingly. (''cp -r /path/to/your/wiki /path/to/your/backup'')
-would be sufficient.
 ==== Dump Database ====
-To make a dump of the [[Mysql]] database, use the "mysqldump" command on a console.
+. To make a dump of the [[Mysql]] database, use the "mysqldump" command on a console.
- mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb_20051223.sql
+:<tt>'''mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb_20051223.sql'''</tt>
 ==== Compress Data ====
-To save diskspace and bandwidth you can now [[HowTo/UncompressFilesInLinux|compress]] the files, f.e. with .tar.gz (or [[zip]]).
+. To save diskspace and bandwidth you can now [[HowTo/UncompressFilesInLinux|compress]] the files, f.e. with .tar.gz (or [[zip]]).
- tar zcvf wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz wikidb_20051223.sql
+:<tt>'''tar zcvf wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz wikidb_20051223.sql'''</tt>
- tar zcvf w_20051223.tar.gz /home/backup/w_20051223
+:<tt>'''tar zcvf w_20051223.tar.gz /home/backup/w_20051223'''</tt>
 ==== Copy to remote location ====
-Finally copy the files to a remote server, f.e. via [[scp]] (or [[ftp]]).
+. Finally copy the files to a remote server, f.e. via [[scp]] (or [[ftp]]).
- scp wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/
+:<tt>'''scp wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/'''</tt>
- scp w_20051223.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/
+:<tt>'''scp w_20051223.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/'''</tt>
 {{Expandsect}}
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 '''Keep in mind that your backup files will include passwords for the wiki database.'''
-Before putting them in a public location consider editing LocalSettings.php (and possibly AdminSettings.php if existing).
+Before putting them in a public location consider editing [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LocalSettings.php LocalSettings.php] (and possibly AdminSettings.php if existing).
 [[Category:Internal]]

Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch: Difference between revisions

Help

Latest revision as of 21:55, 19 December 2005

Contents

Obligatory Caution[edit]

What for?[edit]

This tutorial assumes...[edit]

Requirements[edit]

Upgrading Mediawiki[edit]

SpamBlacklist[edit]

Backup before you Upgrade[edit]

Copy "w" directory[edit]

Dump Database[edit]

Compress Data[edit]

Copy to remote location[edit]

Beware![edit]

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