Opasnet update 2017

This page contains notes produced while updating Opasnet server systems during the summer of 2017.

RTools server

Key software, upgrade paths and related issues:

apache 2.2.15 -> 2.2.32 or 2.4.25
- newer branch not particularly important
PHP 5.3.3 -> 5.6.x or 7.1.x
- incompatibilities in mysql functions
  - "mysql" -> "mysqli" (5.5)
- should upgrade to latest version
MySQL 5.1 -> 5.7
mongoDB 2.4 -> 3.2
- should be relatively easy as we are not using sharding etc.
rtools_server PHP application
- starts on test server after minor changes
- further testing needed
opasnet_base2

Key software, upgrade paths and related issues:

apache 2.2.15 -> 2.2.32 or 2.4.25
PHP 5.4.28 -> 5.6.x or 7.1.x
- 5.5.9+ required by currently supported mediawiki releases
- latest php also supported
- incompatibilities likely to occur in 5.4->5.5, hence should upgrade to latest
MySQL 5.5.37 -> 5.5.56 or 5.7.x
MediaWiki 1.20.0 -> 1.27 (LTS) or 1.28.2 (latest)
- need to check supported extensions
- MyExtension.php no longer supported, need extension.json for registering extensions
- Composer might be useful for managing PHP dependencies
RTools MediaWiki extension
- RTools special page class
- <rcode> tag
- hooks
  - live code
  - UI?
- xmlrpc library used for something
- rtools_client
  - handles connections and job submissions etc. to server
- separate config file, which is included by RTools instead of rtools_client for some reason
- javascripts
  - UI?
  - ajax?
table2base MediaWiki extension