How-To

For a complete list of How-To guides, check Category:How-To.

Deployment

• How to deploy code
• How to perform security fixes

Database

• Searchindex update
• adding a file in innodb
• Setting up a MySQL replica
• Checking MySQL replication
• Switch master : Switching Master Database
• conversion to utf-8
• Make a database dump
• Compress old revisions
• Reclaim space on full db servers

Application servers

• Memcached

Wikifarm

• Add a wiki : Instructions on how to add a new language for a project, chapter, committee, so on...
• FlaggedRevs setup
• AbuseFilter setup
• Adding Namespaces
• Add a server

Other operations

• Decommissioning Servers : What to do to remove a server from our datacenter.
• Proxy access to cluster : Using FoxyProxy for web access to cluster/labs.
• Screen : how to keep stuff running when you log out
• vim : how to enhance your vi experience
• Make an email alias
• Alter mailman archives
• Redirect traffic to tampa
• Build a new server
• Create a Racktables server

See also

• Category:How-To