How-To
For a complete list of How-To guides, check Category:How-To.
Deployment
Database
- Searchindex update
- adding a file in innodb
- Setting up a MySQL replica
- Checking MySQL replication
- Switch master : Switching Master Database
- Obsolete:conversion to utf-8 <-- update me
- Make a database dump
- Compress old revisions
- Reclaim space on full db servers
- How to run queries on live data
- How to do a schema change
Application servers
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
- Operations_requests : How to get help from 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
- Reset a password for a wiki account
- Regenerate cached special pages