Upgrading Dokuwiki

I run Dokuwiki on this website and when I get notices at the top of the page I always cringe. After my last update, I'm not sure why they intimidate me. Upgrading is very simple. Here are the steps I take.

Start in the directory above (..) where your wiki is.

cd /path/before/wiki

Make a backup copy of your wiki, just in case anything goes wrong.

cp -a ./wiki/ ./wiki-bak-xxxx-xx-xx

Download the latest version of Dokuwiki from Splitbrain with a command like the following command.

wget http://.../dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx.tgz

Extract it into a folder named dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx:

tar -xzvf dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx.tgz

Now copy/upload all its files over your old DokuWiki installation overwriting all existing files:

'cp' -rf dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx/{*,.??*} /path/to/wiki/

The quotes around cp ensures the command works even when cp is aliased to cp -i and the .??* ensures that hidden files are also copied.

See the Dokuwiki Upgrade docs for more details.