Thread:Project:Support desk/Mirroring a Wiki

Hi folks,

since I was having issues to upgrade my wiki from 1.22 to 1.24 and I had to restore the old system. Therefore I am planning to create a sandbox wiki (at the same hosting company) with a 1:1 copy of the original wiki.

So far so good.

I was looking for explanations in the web, obviously there are several approaches of extensions at experimental level and many explanations, but overall it's rather rudimentary.

My straight-forward and "naive" way of doing this would be:

1. Copy the entire file structure from the original wiki into the root folder of the mirror wiki location

2. Create a new database (SQL)

3. Export the original wiki DB and import it into the mirror DB

4. Adjust the DB connection / user settings in the LocalSettings.php of the mirror wiki

Now you can eat me alive ;-)

How "naive" is this approach?

I guess there are many more things to adjust, right?

Many thanks for any useful hints!