Migration from meza to canasta: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:46, 16 December 2024

TBD. This page is just a placeholder for any potential migration.

Meza was upgraded to contain most features of QualityBox. This site is thus a Meza instance.

If you are trying to summarize the Meza settings into a single "LocalSettings.php", you might use a simple PHP script like catPreLocalSettingsFiles.php, and do the same to condense the similar "Post LocalSettings.php files".

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-I started my migration of this wiki, which runs on QualityBox, to [[Canasta]]. Since QualityBox is a derivative of Meza with support for running on Debian, I'm calling it from 'meza to canasta'. Anyway, I figured I'd better take some notes along the way.
+TBD. This page is just a placeholder for any potential migration.
-Features of Meza not found in Canasta include:
+[https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Meza Meza] was upgraded to contain most features of [[QualityBox]]. This site is thus a Meza instance.
-<ol>
-<li> Meza has a farm capability
-<li> Meza has a series of base configurations and overrides to allow the site administrator to customize each wiki in the farm.
-</ol>
-This is not a list of the differences, it is just the cause for some of the conversion steps.
+If you are trying to summarize the Meza settings into a single "LocalSettings.php", you might use a simple PHP script like [[catPreLocalSettingsFiles.php]], and do the same to condense the similar "Post LocalSettings.php files".
-I had to condense the settings files into one so that I could use that as "LocalSettings.php" in the Canasta version. To do that I created a simple one-off PHP script called [[catPreLocalSettingsFiles.php]], which I simply copied to condense the similar "Post LocalSettings.php files".