Project:Develop and Test Mediawiki Code on Production

To test changes on MediaWiki-Extensions on production system IntellJ IDE's can be setup to synchronize

files automatically with remote-connections. This shows how to enable such a setup on base of the example of

creating a development setup wih MathSearch-Mediawiki extension to mardi01.

Working ssh connection to mardi01 on your development machine, in many cases this includes VPN access.
Git and IntelliJ installed on development machine

Create an ssh configuration in IntelliJ IDEA for mardi01: "File | Settings | Tools | SSH Configurations" (host: mardi01, user:your-username, ....)
In IDE configuration in "File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Deployment" create a new setup for mardi01 with SFTP (there are probably other options, but this one worked in test)
- In the mappings tab - Set the root path and the folder mappings here according to the extensions which shall get synced on the server
- For the mappings of extension, it is recommended to specify a path in your user's directory, so there are permissions to modify the files.
In IDE configuration in "File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Deployment | Options", in the setting "Upload changed files .." uploading behavior can be set
- Recommendation is to set it here to "On explicit save action", so files are not synced while writing and cause the portal to crash because typos
To upload all files from exension-folder once initially, folder can be clicked and 'deployment->upload to mardi01' can be pressed

On Mardi01

login to mardi01 with mardi-test-user
edit the file (or similar) /home/mardi-test-user/portal-compose/docker-compose.override.yml
add a volumes-mapping entry for wikibase which maps your local changes to exensions, example mappings
- Example for a mediawiki-extension: - /home/jstegemu/development/MathSearch:/var/www/html/extensions/MathSearch)
- Example for Settings: - /home/jstegemu/development/LocalSettings.d:/var/www/html/LocalSettings.d)
restart wikibase, eventually it can take up to 10 minutes (check with crontab -e) until the override is read by portal-compose