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[Xithra]

Do wikis using the Advanced Hosting option have the necessary permissions to run maintenance scripts? That is there are a number of useful php scripts located in the maintenance folder of a default Mediawiki installation. In the past hosts have made it difficult or impossible to run these scripts, some of which are critical, such as easily updating the wiki software when a new revision comes out (using update.php which updates the database schema if any changes have been made).

[Sove]

Advanced hosting does not include SSH so those scripts are not usable. There is an extension named maintenance which lets you execute some of those scripts via a special page in your wiki.

[Xithra]

Thanks for the tip, that's a very nice extension, especially with the interface to make it as simple as possible. You were right though that there are only a handful of scripts available.

I did some more looking around and found this extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MaintenanceShell

It allows you to specify arbitrary parameters and has worked so far for every script I've needed to use and turned a multi-day job of moving a 20k page wiki by hand into a far easier and shorter task.