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.

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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?

Have you checked out "Upgrading an XWiki Installation" in the following location? http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation HTH, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team

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 -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team

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 <[email protected]> wrote:

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Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:

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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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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 <[email protected]> wrote:

Joao Henrique Silva Santos wrote:

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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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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"> [....]

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