- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:DumpBackup.php#my_MySQL_database_is_not_on_a_standard_port – I took me a while to remember, that solving an issue would be done best right here – well, actually I was looking around for the right mailing list
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MWDumper
My web-space provider has a lot of MySQL servers running for customers like me. All these servers answer to requests
- on their resp. UNIX socket
- and also their resp. TCP/IP port.
So for my database I know
- my very special UNIX socket
- and my very special TCP/IP port.
And in order to connect my MySQL database there, I use either of them.
But: I see no way of how to get DumpBackup.php to connect to my database like that.
I don’t see a way with MWDumper either.
Update:
My PHP web applications see and use this php.ini :
- $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/php.ini
This is why and how my MediaWiki and my WordPress see their MySQL database.
So why does dumpBackup.php started on the command line not see and use that php.ini ? Well PHP from the command line behaves differently. It does not see that file. But you can tell it to use a file through “-c …”. Used it, succeeded:
$ php -c $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/php.ini …/maintenance/dumpBackup.php … $ php -c $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/php.ini …/maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full --output=gzip:/dumps/abstract.xml.gz
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