membership.highedweb.org Tech Deets

Changes, updates and configurations maintained inside CiviCRM and its source tree

Herein is documented stuff that may get blown away across upgrades and server moves. Be wary!

• techadmin_cron as HEWEB_TECHADMIN_USER configured in wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.settings-private.php and set up as anonymous user in WordPress
• wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/bin/heweb_techadmin_no_really_run_cron_jobs.php which is executed by Easy Cron
• 5.3.3 as a minimum PHP version is changed to 5.3.2 in several places, notably:
  • wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.php
  • wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Upgrade/Form.php
  • wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/install/index.php

Other CiviCRM upgrade tasks

These are documented in CiviCRM's docs, but sometimes are scattered and nonobvious (to me), so I'm recording them here, too.

• Execute http://membership.highedweb.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/upgrade&reset=1
• Do these urls make sense?
• Do these paths make sense?
• Execute cleanup caches

Pushing to WPEngine

Get Jason or Curtiss or Chad to add you and your SSH key be added to hewmembership.

Staging

Use this for tests. See WPEngine docs for how to update staging to latest from production.

• git remote add wpengine-staging [email protected]:staging/hewmembership.git if not already done locally
• git push wpengine-staging <working_branch_name>:master

Production

• git remote add wpengine-prod [email protected]:production/hewmembership.git if not already done locally
• git push wpengine-prod master

Nonversioned trees

The following trees are not stored in git (per WPEngine, and perhaps common sense). This may be incomplete.

• wp-content/uploads/...
• wp-content/plugins/files/civicrm/upload/...
• wp-content/HighEdWeb website pre 2009.zip

The following trees are currently stored in git, but may at some point be rejected by WPEngine rules.

• wp-content/plugins/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/...
• wp-content/plugins/files/civicrm/custom/...

Private Configuration File Notes

• wp-config.php is not versionable per WPEngine, so private stuff is kept in here and public stuff is kept in the peer file wp-config-public.php which is versionable
• wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.settings.php has been split to include a -private version, where the latter are not stored in git, as enforced by an entry in .gitignore

Updating WPEngine from 1and1 (OLD)

• Migration from 1and1 is complete, and master now represents WPEngine current production state. See older revisions of this file for details of how migration was performed.