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upgrading_dokuwiki [2015/05/13 13:58] Joel Dare |
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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. | 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. | ||
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+ | Before you start, make sure you have some disk space available. | ||
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+ | df -h | ||
Start in the directory above (..) where your wiki is. | Start in the directory above (..) where your wiki is. | ||
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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. | 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. | + | 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. I also had to delete ./wiki/data/cache/messages.txt. |
touch ./wiki/doku.php | touch ./wiki/doku.php |