[pmwiki-users] How to reactivate a pmwiki

[Mitch Cohen]

Thank you! I needed a starting point and this is it.
My strong points were not the backend of the operations that's for certain!

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 2:11 AM Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> On 21/12/2023 02:52, Mitch Cohen wrote:
> > Hello! I have a wiki I used for nearly 10 years on my web server. I
> > would like to re-activate it in the background of my primary site. Is
> > this possible?
>
> Absolutely, PmWiki can be installed either in a subdirectory like
> example.com/wiki/ or if your hosting provider allows it, into a
> subdomain like wiki.example.com.
>
> > Where could I find instructions?
>
> If you place your wiki files on the server, and you see any warnings or
> errors, it is likely that your current hosting plan has a more recent
> PHP version than the one that run the old PmWiki installation.
>
> You should upgrade your PmWiki to the latest version in order to have
> the latest security fixes and to run on hosting plans with recent PHP
> versions.
>
> The relevant pages are Upgrades, Release Notes, and Troubleshooting, and
> you can read the notes between your previous PmWiki version and the
> latest one.
>
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Upgrades
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ReleaseNotes
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Troubleshooting
>
> If the wiki is running, the PmWiki version should be visible on the wiki
> pages PmWiki.PmWiki or PmWiki.Version, otherwise in the disk file
> pmwiki/scripts/version.php.
>
> You need to upgrade both PmWiki and likely any recipes / skins to their
> latest versions. For recipes and skins, check their pages in the
> Cookbook:
>
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Skins/Skins
>
> You should also review the file local/config.php in case it has
> hardcoded URLs to the old location, notably the variables $ScriptUrl,
> $PubDirUrl and $FarmPubDirUrl.
>
> If you had some variant of CleanUrls configured before, this may need to
> be either updated or dropped, depending on the hosting capacities.
>
> Let us know if you have any questions or difficulties, we can assist
> with this.
>
> Petko
>
>
> > I am currently running
> > a wordpress. If it's not an option, I would appreciate anyone
> > directing me to where I can learn about migrating the entire pmwiki to
> > another server. I use hostgator if that matters. Thank you!!  - Mitch
>
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