12 Mar
2008
12 Mar
'08
3:37 p.m.
Hi.
I have installed an XWiki 1.2.2 through a "XWiki Enterprise ZIP", and
now want to upgrade to 1.3.
From the documentation, it seems that easy upgrades of
the wiki
require the WAR installation, which I have not done. Do I have to
export my current wiki into a WAR (if so, how can I do it?), or is it
done through a different method?
Best regards,
Joao
13 Mar
13 Mar
2:13 a.m.
Hi Joao,
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi.
I have installed an XWiki 1.2.2 through a "XWiki Enterprise ZIP", and
now want to upgrade to 1.3.
Have you checked out "Upgrading an XWiki Installation" in the following
location?
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation
HTH,
Ricardo
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Your EPEC Network ICT Team
From the documentation, it seems that easy
upgrades of the wiki
require the WAR installation, which I have not done. Do I have
to
export my current wiki into a WAR (if so, how can I do it?), or is it
done through a different method?
9:31 a.m.
Hi
Yes, I did, but it only mentions the WAR distribution upgrade. Or am I
mis-reading it?
rgds,
Joao
On 13/03/2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team
<webmaster(a)environmentalchange.net> wrote:
Hi Joao,
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi.
I have installed an XWiki 1.2.2 through a "XWiki Enterprise ZIP", and
now want to upgrade to 1.3.
Have you checked out "Upgrading an XWiki Installation" in the following
location?
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation
HTH,
Ricardo
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From the documentation, it seems that easy
upgrades of the wiki
require the WAR installation, which I have not done. Do I have
to
export my current wiki into a WAR (if so, how can I do it?), or is it
done through a different method?
10:42 a.m.
Hi,
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi
Yes, I did, but it only mentions the WAR distribution upgrade. Or am I
mis-reading it?
Touché! :-) Good point. It was me myself who misread your message.
I've once downloaded and used a zipped distribution to debug a problem
with MySQL (following Vincent advice) and all what I did was to remove
the folder of the hsqldb database (I don't remember the name and some
xwiki.org sections are now down for maintenance, but it was easy to
locate) and configure hibernate.cfg.xml accordingly.
So I am *guessing* that all you have to do is to bring down your servlet
container, create a backup copy of the whole /xwiki directory structure
(jsut in case!), put in place the new zip contents, copy your current
database to the new location and start the container again.
Please, let me knows if this helped. Thanks.
Best,
Ricado
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your EPEC Network ICT Team
10:45 a.m.
Hi,
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi
Yes, I did, but it only mentions the WAR distribution upgrade. Or am I
mis-reading it?
Touché! :-) Good point. It was me myself who misread your message.
I've once downloaded and used a zipped distribution to debug a problem
with MySQL (following Vincent advice) and all what I did was to remove
the folder of the hsqldb database (I don't remember the name and some
xwiki.org sections are now down for maintenance, but it was easy to
locate) and configure hibernate.cfg.xml accordingly.
So I am *guessing* that all you have to do is to bring down your servlet
container, create a backup copy of the whole /xwiki directory structure
(jsut in case!), put in place the new zip contents, copy your current
database to the new location and start the container again.
Please, let me knows if this helped. It could be helpful for others if
we could create a FAQ about this (if it doesn't existe yet!) Thanks.
Best,
Ricado
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your EPEC Network ICT Team
12:39 p.m.
Thanks for the info.
I'll try it when I know I have some free time just for the upgrading,
in case something goes wrong. Perhaps later today.
In any case, I'll post some results.
But I have a question, when you say to copy database do you mean only
the "$XWIKI_HOME/database" folder? just like that :-) ?
rgds,
Joao
On 13/03/2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team
<webmaster(a)environmentalchange.net> wrote:
Hi,
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi
Yes, I did, but it only mentions the WAR
distribution upgrade. Or am I
mis-reading it?
Touché! :-) Good point. It was me myself who misread your message.
I've once downloaded and used a zipped distribution to debug a problem
with MySQL (following Vincent advice) and all what I did was to remove
the folder of the hsqldb database (I don't remember the name and some
xwiki.org sections are now down for maintenance, but it was easy to
locate) and configure hibernate.cfg.xml accordingly.
So I am *guessing* that all you have to do is to bring down your servlet
container, create a backup copy of the whole /xwiki directory structure
(jsut in case!), put in place the new zip contents, copy your current
database to the new location and start the container again.
Please, let me knows if this helped. It could be helpful for others if
we could create a FAQ about this (if it doesn't existe yet!) Thanks.
Best,
Ricado
--
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Your EPEC Network ICT Team
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2:11 p.m.
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Thanks for the info.
I'll try it when I know I have some free time just for the upgrading,
in case something goes wrong. Perhaps later today.
In any case, I'll post some results.
But I have a question, when you say to copy database do you mean only
the "$XWIKI_HOME/database" folder? just like that :-) ?
Yeap, as simple as that :-) XWiki is a great and "simple" stuff!
Cheers,
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Your EPEC Network ICT Team
4:45 p.m.
Hi.
I've upgraded the xwiki from 1.2.2 to 1.3 final using the zip distributions
All I did was:
1 - copy the entire directory to a backup folder
2 - unzip the 1.3 zip file xwiki-enterprise-hsqldb-1.3.zip
3 - deleted the newly created database ($XWIKI_HOME/database), and
replaced it with the backed up database folder.
Then I wanted to implement the changes I had made on the 1.2.2
albatross skin, but since I could not find where to make some changes
(namely how to change the url of the wiki icon, which was defined on
global.vm), I decided instead to:
4 - rename "albatross" (in webapps/xwiki/skins) to
"albatrossORIGINAL";
5 - copy to the skins folder the "albatross" folder from my backed up
1.2.2 xwiki
It is now running and so far it seems everything is fine, including user list.
Joao
On 13/03/2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team
<webmaster(a)environmentalchange.net> wrote:
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Thanks for the info.
I'll try it when I know I have some free time just for the upgrading,
in case something goes wrong. Perhaps later today.
In any case, I'll post some results.
But I have a question, when you say to copy database do you mean only
the "$XWIKI_HOME/database" folder? just like that :-) ?
Yeap, as simple as that :-) XWiki is a great and "simple" stuff!
Cheers,
--
Ricardo Rodríguez
Your EPEC Network ICT Team
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users(a)xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
8:45 p.m.
Great!
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
Hi.
I've upgraded the xwiki from 1.2.2 to 1.3 final using the zip distributions
All I did was:
1 - copy the entire directory to a backup folder
2 - unzip the 1.3 zip file xwiki-enterprise-hsqldb-1.3.zip
3 - deleted the newly created database ($XWIKI_HOME/database), and
replaced it with the backed up database folder.
I think this path could go in a FAQ entry. Perhaps it does not make
sense to propose a way of updating from the zipped standalone
distribution running on Jetty/hhsqldb to the war one. The standalone
release is intended to entry level users, and it would be advisable to
move to the war distribution running on whatever servlet container and a
relational database like MySQL or Oracle. But you have your contents in
the standalone version... what database are you planning to run with
XWiki war?
Then I wanted to implement the changes I had made on
the 1.2.2
albatross skin, but since I could not find where to make some changes
(namely how to change the url of the wiki icon, which was defined on
global.vm), I decided instead to:
4 - rename "albatross" (in webapps/xwiki/skins) to
"albatrossORIGINAL";
5 - copy to the skins folder the "albatross" folder from my backed up
1.2.2 xwiki
This is not a good idea. Albatross has changed a lot since 1.2.2 times
(better, the pair Albatross/Toucan :-), so I think you MUST use the new
release. I will be glad to help you to recover your customized behavior,
but first of all we need to work out the collapsed/expanded panels issue.
What do you think?
Saúde,
Ricardo
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14 Mar
14 Mar
11:09 a.m.
I think this path could go in a FAQ entry. Perhaps it
does not make
sense to propose a way of updating from the zipped standalone
distribution running on Jetty/hhsqldb to the war one. The standalone
release is intended to entry level users, and it would be advisable to
move to the war distribution running on whatever servlet container and a
relational database like MySQL or Oracle. But you have your contents in
the standalone version... what database are you planning to run with
XWiki war?
I'll make a post in the FAQ.
As for the database, I'm not sure, since I'm not responsible for the
server and don't know yet what database and servlets are availabe.
Will try to find out...
This is not a good idea. Albatross has changed a lot since 1.2.2 times
(better, the pair Albatross/Toucan :-), so I think you MUST use the new
release. I will be glad to help you to recover your customized behavior,
but first of all we need to work out the collapsed/expanded panels issue.
What do you think?
I think you're right, even with the collapsed panels problem solved.
Just have to find a time when I can allow myself to break the layout
of the wiki. Even though the page its in the very early construction
phase, I have couple of co-workers who also make contributions.
So my first question regarding the albatross skin is the following:
Since the global.vm file is missing, and at least a few of the
properties it defined are now elsewhere (such as colors.css), while
others are not, should I create a new global.vm or is it entirely
deprecated?
In my case, I want to modify the url of the main logo, which was
defined in global.vm as
[...]
<div id="company">
<div id="companylogo">
<a href="SOMEURL">
[....]
15 Mar
15 Mar
1:52 a.m.
Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:
I'll make a post in the FAQ.
As for the database, I'm not sure, since I'm not responsible for the
server and don't know yet what database and servlets are availabe.
Will try to find out...
Great! As for the database, I think I could offer you temporal hosting
for a small MySQL database here. Let me know if you consider it will
help you to convince your administrator that to host MySQL there (or any
other option) will be a good idea.
I think you're right, even with the collapsed
panels problem solved.
Just have to find a time when I can allow myself to break the layout
of the wiki. Even though the page its in the very early construction
phase, I have couple of co-workers who also make contributions.
So my first question regarding the albatross skin is the following:
Since the global.vm file is missing, and at least a few of the
properties it defined are now elsewhere (such as colors.css), while
others are not, should I create a new global.vm or is it entirely
deprecated?
In my case, I want to modify the url of the main logo, which was
defined in global.vm as
[...]
<div id="company">
<div id="companylogo">
<a href="SOMEURL">
[....]
Nope, global.vm is by no means deprecated! But it is now stored in the
/templates folder under /xwiki. All Velocity templates have been moved
there.
But if you create your own skin and put a global.vm file there, it will
take precedence over the one in /templates.
Take a look to this...
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Skins#HCreatingawholene…
This might help.
Cheers,
Ricardo
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Your EPEC Network ICT Team
17 Mar
17 Mar
3:13 p.m.
Great! As for the database, I think I could offer you
temporal hosting for
a small MySQL database here. Let me know if you consider it will help you to
convince your administrator that to host MySQL there (or any other option)
will be a good idea.
Thanks for your offer, but i think it won't be necessary :)
Nope, global.vm is by no means deprecated! But it is
now stored in the
/templates folder under /xwiki. All Velocity templates have been moved
there.
Thanks! should have remembered of doing a find $WIKI -name global.vm :p
Joao
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