Re: [xwiki-users] Help on upgrade from 0.9.853

Lijour, Marc (EDU) wrote: Basically the trick was to follow the instructions inside http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation#HInstallingtheX… (installing Tomcat 6 and MySQL 5.0), with this plus: * change the port number * add MySQL JDBC driver to xwiki * transfer database using mysqldump o modify the XWD_ARCHIVE field o give permissions to xwiki user * copy WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg and WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml from the old to the new server * delete the templates from the new version and copy there the old ones instead * delete the albatross skin and copy the default skin (from XWiki 0.9) to the skins/albatross folder Wit these steps you can run your wiki on top of v1.1. The problem with this procedure is that many v1.1 features are implemented in the core, but not used because the templates are the v0.9 ones. I promise a detailed how-to with all the steps (many of them already in different parts of xwiki.org) -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) - Algorithm junkie Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) GNU/Linux User Group - FCEyN - UBA (http://glugcen.dc.uba.ar/