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Upgrade hell

Upgrade Hell.

In 1995 I started eddiem.com
It was a plain HTML site mostly edited in openoffice. This site has not need backend upgrades to keep working. I sometime make minor edits with a plain text editor.
In 2008 I started Nerdipedia.com, "web-2" was the rage with wikipedia being a poster child. I installed tikiwiki version-1 and built Nerdipedia over the years.
Little did I know I'd see 27 verisions by 2024 or that many upgrades would be problematic.
I didn't know image use would change several times, along with character coding and database format. There were also security bugs which got my web-site hacked and spammers made public contributions impractical.
The software base required to run tikiwiki is complex. It needs PHP and a database engine. Versions need to be compatible - not too old but also not too new.
There are also file permissions and ownership which need to be correct - for linux at least.
There are clear benefits to using a wiki but considering all the problem sticking with HTML may have been easier.
eddie


Created by admin2. Last Modification: Monday 27 of May, 2024 21:55:45 AEST by admin2.

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eddie, 18:52 AEST, Wed 11 of Sep, 2024: Most pages should be working again.
System Administrator, 08:03 AEST, Sat 10 of Aug, 2024: Lots of images are still broken. I'm working on it. Maybe 1/2 way through.
admin2, 14:05 AEST, Mon 05 of Aug, 2024: running tiki 27
admin2, 16:01 AEST, Sun 09 of Jun, 2024: Wiki running tikiwiki version 27alpha on a raspberry pi-3. About 1/2 the images are missing and most thumbnails not working. Slow manual rebuild. About %20 done.
eddie, 20:23 AEST, Sun 19 of May, 2024: Images moved from wiki_up to file galleries and wiki pages fixed.

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