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apt-get install apache2
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php 
apt-get install default-mysql-server	(mariadb is now default)
mysql_secure_installation 		( https://tecadmin.net/how-to-install-mariadb-on-debian-11/ )
apt-get install php-mysql
a2enmod userdir

vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.4.conf
comment out lines to enable php for userdirs

adduser kartbuilding
cd /home/kartbuilding/
mkdir public_html
vi index.php 
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

That should be the basic lamp setup.

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/01-kartbuilding.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin email@domain.net
        ServerName www.kartbuilding.net
        ServerAlias kartbuilding.net
        DocumentRoot /home/kartbuilding/public_html/
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_kart.log combined
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_kart.log
        Loglevel warn
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        UserDir disabled
</VirtualHost>

#Repeat block for other vhosts on this domain

<code>
#Enable site with
a2ensite 01-kartbuilding
#or symlink into /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

• mysqldump on original host as per: mysqldump
• Add new user as per: mysql_users_add_remove
• login to mysql and go “create database”
• Import mysql dump importing_a_mysql_dump

#always source -> destination
#On new server issue
rsync -ave ssh user@oldserver:/home/kartbuilding/ /home/kartbuilding/

apt-get install screen
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Because vi rocks

apt-get install vim
vi /etc/vim/vimrc
uncomment syntax on
uncomment let g:skip_defaults_vim = 1  (allows default vim control mouse off) 
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/551512/disabling-vim-visual-mode-in-etc-vim-vimrc-does-not-work

I had wordpress done via SVN, so it was easy.
cd /home/kartbuilding/public_blog
svn info
svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/6.0.1/ .

Where possible any webapps will have to be updated as there are a lot of changes between php5 and php7.

#Apache error log showed:
PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in...... on line 35

Edit the php file and on line 35:
Remove the &. Its not needed in php7.
Example:
Original php5
$bbdb =& new $bbdb_class( array(

New:
$bbdb = new $bbdb_class( array(

Where possible any webapps will have to be updated as there are a lot of changes between php5 and php7.

 PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

Edit php script and change mysql_connect() to mysqli_connect()

Mediawiki instance was so old. Tried to copy it and update php scripts to php7. No joy, had problems connecting to database. The latest mediawiki was nearly 300MB (previous was 60MB).

I made the decision to install and migrate to dokuwiki which doesn't use sql but flat text files.

Install was very straight forward. (Info at: https://www.dokuwiki.org/install ) However for migration purposes, I chose to install an older version of dokuwiki for my php5.

Went for an old stable release at: https://download.dokuwiki.org/archive If its too new, you'll get errors when running with php5.

chmod 777 and run install.php

Setup and have dokuwiki installed with new install and user.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:mediawiki_to_dokuwiki_converter

For old Media wiki.
https://github.com/tetsuo13/MediaWiki-to-DokuWiki-Importer/archive/99b29b645fb7f5bb8c5c03b23d1bfbb4eee642ed.zip

Download and extract Zip. Browse to and edit:
public_html/mediatodoc/src/MediaWiki2DokuWiki/settings.php
Update paths.

Run via browser /mediatodoc/src/MediaWiki2DokuWiki/index.php

(got an error the first time, and had to add: $wgDBtype = "mysql"; to LocalSettings.

Explore to dokuwiki, go to Site Map and all pages should be listed.

Copy folder to newserver. Upgraded as per dokuwiki info ( https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:upgrade )

Hetzner cloud server did not come with swap space. While you could console and resize, creating a swap file was a nice quick solution.

root@sun:~# free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         1981092      180740      250956       15668     1549396     1596964
Swap:              0           0           0

cat /etc/fstab
#shows no swap

fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

root@sun:~# free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         1981092      182696      245032       15668     1553364     1594984
Swap:        2097148           0     2097148

vi /etc/fstab
#add
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

swapon --show

swapoff -v /swapfile
edit fstab
rm the file