Manual talk:Maintenance scripts

Executing the maintenance scripts
What is meant by "filling in the required connection instructions"? Do I have to write these instructions into the "AdminSettings.php"? Sorry for asking such stupid questions. My best, --84.75.55.96 22:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * In the AdminSettings.sample, the connection information is generic. You will notice that :
 * $wgDBadminuser     = 'wikiadmin';
 * $wgDBadminpassword = 'adminpass';
 * You should simply replace the values of 'wikiadmin' and 'adminpass' with your own database username and password in your AdminSettings.php file.
 * Stéphane Thibault 05:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks! I did that. But how do I establish a commandline connection with the database server? I am working on a Mac and our wiki is installed on server of a hosting provider. But I think I have Shell access; at least it says shell access via "/bin/false". But I really have no clue how to connect. Do I need a particular program for that? My best, --Gollum 19:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If the shell of a user is set to "/bin/false" it is usually the technical way of saying "no shell access". A shell is a program that reads you commands and executes them, while /bin/false only does one thing: exits immediately. --Myhr 13:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, that does not sound too good. What can I do then? Is there another way to execute the maintenance scripts then? Is it normal to ask the provider to do so? Any other ideas? My best, --Gollum 21:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have the same problem. I do not have access to SSH. I set up a cron job like this one:
 * */45 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/httpd/public_html/wiki/maintenance/generateSitemap.php wiki.mydomain.com --fspath /home/httpd/public_html/wiki/
 * Is that ok? (sorry for my poor english). --89.217.47.34 02:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

How to run maintenance scripts from a Web client?
Some users I'm helping are on hosted sites and aren't able to ssh in to run command-line scripts. It would be nice if there was some guideline and/or an alternative commandLine_ALLOW_FROM_WEB.inc that permits these users to run maintenance scripts from a Web page.

Renaming .htaccess to .htaccess_DISABLED lets one view the directory, but I think the next step is disabling the Web server check in commandLine.inc and replacing its command-line parsing with query string parsing. -- Skierpage 01:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

How do I purge the cache fo all my hundreds of image pages?
I need to purge the cache for all my "image:" pages. (all at once) Is there a maintenance script to do this? purgeList.php? How does it work? or some other script? puzzled and in need --Maxelrod 22:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

importTextFile.php
I can't figure out how to get this file to work! I have tried through many ways including the sourceforge project wiki_import. When I use the importTextFile.php directly I get this error:

I'm calling importTextFile.php using this code: I'm calling the wiki_import.sh using this code: and I get this error: --Greg 22:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Extension:Maintenance
For those without command line access, I wrote an extension that runs a few of the scripts from a special page, but I'm not really all that sure how I should add a mention of it on the manual page. At first I was thinking about a simple see also link, but it should probably be outlined somewhere that there is an alternative (albeit not a very good one in terms of number of scripts it supports) for those without command line access. So... I don't know where to put a message like that :P -- Skiz zerz  23:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

many scripts still not described
Is there anyone able to add some documentation about the scripts listed here with no corresponding page ? --New Morning 09:41, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

1&1
Hi,

When I try to run these scripts with putty, it answers : this version of Mediawiki requires php5 ; you are running 4.4.9. But I have already configured my htaccess with AddType x-mapp-php5 .php that is required on 1&1. I don't understand.