OWW BioMicro Server Switch

This page is describes the updates that are taking place to move administration of the wiki from the Endy lab to the BioMicro center.


 * 1) Prepare the new machine
 * 2) *Done. The new server at bmc-5.mit.edu is set up and ready to serve pages.  It is running Mediawiki 1.4.10.
 * 3) Move openwetware.com to the new address to test the wiki. Change ANAME and CNAME to point to bmc-5.mit.edu
 * 4) *Done... check out http://openwetware.com
 * 5) freeze the current wiki (no write access) and provide appropriate notice on the Main Page.
 * 6) *Lock database
 * 7) copy the wiki and settings to the new machine:
 * 8) *stop apache to make sure no updates are happening (just to be on the safe side)
 * 9) *get the snapshot of the wiki folder and database dump:
 * 10) **$ zip -r /mnt/bionet/homedirs/ilyas/bmc-dropbox/openwetware.zip /var/www/html/openwetware
 * 11) **$ mysqldump -u wikiuser -p --opt wikidb > /mnt/bionet/homedirs/ilyas/bmc-dropbox/openwetware.sql
 * 12) *start apache
 * 13) unfreeze wiki on the new machine
 * 14) *Unlock database
 * 15) move A/CNAMES of openwetware.org and openwetware.mit.edu to the new address
 * 16) *Recent requests to MIT IS&T have taken several days to process. The yahoo addresses seem to update within minutes.
 * 17) clean up model... send link from model to the new site.

More info:
 * Notes from meeting
 * How to move a MediWiki Database