Hi Tom, Here's what I did when I moved servers: 1) Backup xwiki database using the administrator. 2) Install all applications required on new svr - JDK5, tomcat5, mySQL4. You must set the Max Packet Size to a large number to accommodate the import at step4. 3) Install the Xwiki as new on the next system; BUT stop when you get the the .sql import (last step for me usually on installation). 4) Now use the backup file created at step1 instead of the .sql file downloaded from the Xwiki site. You should be able to start the xwiki and login practically immediately. Permissions needed: Tomcat will require one of the files to be given permission to all users, iirc - not too sure on that sorry. Win2k3 was a nightmare to do in this regard, but patience got me thru I've done the move twice, once from my own pc to a temp server, and once from the temp server to a new server - both times I managed to get the xwiki up in around 30 minutes or so as I just moved the xwiki files straight to the new server (don't think you can do this with Linux?). I have not moved from windows to Linux YET (next move), but I would assume since the mySQL is common source, there should be no problem using a windows mySQL backup. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Stone [mailto:Tom.Stone@KLEENEZE.co.uk] Sent: 31 May 2006 10:35 To: 'xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org' Subject: RE: [xwiki-users] [OFF TOPIC] Sadness Hi, I have been running an XWiki server on my PC for about 3 weeks and have been entering a lot of useful information about our companies IT Systems. This is currently on a Windows XP machine running Tomcat and MySQL. I am in the process of setting up a Dell server running either aLinux or Debian Linux to act as a permanent home for the XWiki. If I follow the installation instructions on setting up a new XWiki - can I then just copy the XWiki database over from the Windows PC and set access rights to the XWiki user or is it more complicated than that (if so can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation) Cheers Tom Stone Network Administrator