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--- upgrading_dokuwiki [2011/09/11 03:05]
Joel Dare
+++ upgrading_dokuwiki [2015/05/13 14:04]
Joel Dare
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+====== 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/ /tmp/wiki-bak
+Download the latest version of Dokuwiki from [[http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/dokuwiki|Splitbrain]] with a command like the following command.
+  wget http://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz
+Extract it into a folder:
+  tar -xzvf dokuwiki-stable.tgz
+Now copy/upload all its files over your old DokuWiki installation overwriting all existing files:
+  'cp' -rf dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx/{*,.??*} ./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.
+Touch the doku.php file so that dokuwiki clears it's cache and sees that we are using the latest version of now. The last time I tried the upgrade, the touch command below didn't work for me. I had to edit the file, change the $updateVersion variable, then change it back.
+  touch ./wiki/doku.php
+Remove the temporary installation files.
+  rm -rf dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx/
+See the [[http://www.dokuwiki.org/install:upgrade|Dokuwiki Upgrade]] docs for more details.