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 your 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)

Extension:MaintenanceShell
I expanded on Skizzerz ideas and made an extension which supports all maintenance scripts :) --Frantik 02:05, 31 May 2009 (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.
 * .htaccess only affects scripts run from the web server. When you use putty you're using the command line so htaccess isn't being used.  I'm not quite sure how to run php5 via the command line in 1&1.. maybe try "php5" instead of "php"? --Frantik 02:14, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

AdminSettings.php
Which scripts require this? I haven't renamed it and most of them seem to work.. or do i get improved security if I do set it up correctly? --Frantik 02:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Godaddy
Took me a while to get this, so I'm gonna share it with all those running Mediawiki in Godaddy.

When using Putty to run maintenance scripts, you'll get a message about not having php5 installed even though you have PHP5 installed. This is because Godaddy defaults to PHP4. To run maintenance scripts, instead of writing, let's say:

php cleanupTitles.php

write...

web/cgi-bin/php5 "cleanupTitles.php"

This way you load php5 instead of the default php4. --Mark 08:23, 8 December 2009 (UTC)