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Backing up an offline only personal wiki?

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174.28.181.84 (talkcontribs)

Hello, I use an offline online personal Mediawiki for my own projects, I wish to upgrade my computer to 64bit Windows OS and I need to back the wiki up so I can access it after the upgrade. What is the simplest way to do this? Thank you

174.28.181.84 (talkcontribs)

Edit, I mean' to say "I use an offline personal Mediawiki"

87.123.61.69 (talkcontribs)
174.28.166.134 (talkcontribs)

If I am going to install the new OS on a new SSD and keep my two current hard-drives (including the one where the Wiki is) as data drives so I still need to do anything specific to use the wiki with the new OS?

87.123.26.238 (talkcontribs)

The wiki needs a server to be run. The wiki files must be inside the docroot of a webserver (e.g. Apache) and the database files need to be in a MySQL server. Both of these servers need to be running.

It might be possible to continue running the old servers from your old HDD in the new OS, but I guess you might then have to change some configuration variables for these servers to continue working.And the servers will then be installed on the old harddrives obviously, not on the new one. Since you have to adjust the configuration anyway, it might not even be that much more work to just set up a new server directly inside the new OS and to run the wiki from there. That way the wiki will again be inside your OS and no longer outside - just as it has been before.

174.28.166.133 (talkcontribs)

OP here.

I think I am accessing the myPHPadmin panel for my wiki. I used the WAMP to install it and I forgot much so I need to be helped like baby lol

Well I am in the myphpadmin and I see the "export" tool but I can't find the file for my wiki? is this weird? should i be able to see the database of my wiki (the infos)?

87.123.21.22 (talkcontribs)

Yes, phpmyadmin should show you the different databases and - I would have to look up how that is working exactly - but phpmyadmin has an option to export a database...

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