When dealing with a lot of DokuWiki clients/sites, it’s easier to update the installations via the command line. DokuWiki doesn’t use MySQL databases, so the update consists only in downloading the new version and extracting the files. make a backup before starting the update.
To update DokuWiki from the command line:
1. Log into your server via SSH
2. Download the latest DokuWiki installation. The URL is https://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz. If you want to customize the install go to https://download.dokuwiki.org/ and generate the download link. The link will look like https://download.dokuwiki.org/out/dokuwiki-b6722f2a5dc53ff8b034cb88737aabc2.tgz
3. Download the archive
wget https://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz4. Extract the files. The files will be extracted to the /dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx/ directory
tar zxvf dokuwiki-stable.tgz5. Copy the extracted files to the DokuWiki path (xxxx-xx-xx is the date of the latest stable release):
cp -R dokuwiki-xxxx-xx-xx/* /PATH_TO_DOKUWIKI/Example (if the command will ask to overwrite a file, the answer will be automatic ‘yes’):
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