nixos-wiki-infra

This project contains the setup of https://wiki.nixos.org

Examples

Checkout ./targets/nixos-wiki.nixos.org for an example terraform deployment on hetzner cloud.

Downloading a dump of the wiki

This is useful if you want to run your own instance. Every day an xml dump is updated here:

https://wiki.nixos.org/wikidump.xml.zst

Restoring from a backup (wiki admins only)

$ systemctl stop phpfpm-mediawiki.service
$ borg-job-wiki list
$ borg-job-wiki mount u391032-sub1@u391032.your-storagebox.de:wiki.nixos.org/repo::wiki-wiki-2024-04-01T12:40:37 /tmp/restore
$ ls -la /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki/backup/
$ sudo dropdb db
$ sudo -u postgres dropdb mediawiki
$ systemctl restart postgresql.service
$ sudo -u postgres pg_restore -d mediawiki < /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki/backup/db
$ systemctl start phpfpm-mediawiki.service
$ ls -la /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki-uploads/
$ umount /tmp/restore/