View source for Upgrade Mediawiki 1.27 to 1.31 on FreeBSD 11.2

[[Category:FreeBSD]]

== Introduction ==

We'll upgrade MediaWiki to 1.31 using PHP 7.2.

== Prerequisites ==

We assume you have [[Installing Mediawiki 1.27 on FreeBSD 11.1|MediaWiki 1.27 installed]].

== Back-up data ==

 sudo zfs snap -r tank/mediawiki@`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M'`

== Install new packages ==

 sudo pkg install -y mediawiki131-php72 php72-pdo_sqlite
 sudo service php-fpm restart
 sudo service nginx restart

== Patch LocalSettings.php ==

Make sure LocalSettings.php loads the skins like so:

 require_once "$IP/skins/Vector/Vector.php";
 require_once "$IP/skins/MonoBook/MonoBook.php";
 require_once "$IP/skins/Timeless/SkinTimeless.php";
 require_once "$IP/skins/MinervaNeue/MinervaNeue.php";

== Install Minerva Skin (required by MobileFrontend) ==

 sudo chown root:staff /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins
 sudo sudo chmod g+w /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins
 cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins
 wget https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/skins/MinervaNeue-REL1_31-2e70e79.tar.gz
 tar -xzf MinervaNeue-REL1_31-2e70e79.tar.gz -C /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins

== Update MobileFrontend ==

 cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki/extensions
 wget https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/MobileFrontend-REL1_31-7f66849.tar.gz
 rm -r MobileFrontend
 tar -xzf MobileFrontend-REL1_31-7f66849.tar.gz -C /usr/local/www/mediawiki/extensions

== Run the upgrade script ==

 cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki/maintenance
 sudo su -m -c staff www -c '/usr/local/bin/php update.php'
 sudo service php-fpm restart
 sudo service nginx restart

You are now done.