Hi Manuel/Maik, On 13 Oct 2014 at 08:28:00, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

Hello Maik,

In order to upgrade your XWiki installataion from 6.1 to 6.2.1 you need to follow these steps: * Download the 6.2.1 WAR file ( http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-6.2.1.war) and extract it into a folder called "xwiki" * Go to your XWiki 6.1 installation folder and replace your "webapps\xwiki" folder with the one from the previous step * Start your server

This tutorial assumes you're using HyperSQL as the DB by default. If you use another DB you need to copy a Java connector to your "xwiki\WEB-INF\lib" folder and also configure your "xwiki\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml" to connect to your specific DB.

Thanks, Manuel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Maik Dehnert wrote:

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Hello all together,

I am a bit confused looking at upgrading section, because I have never upgraded XWIKI before, and I just have experience with the regular ".exe" installation process. Can you explain in a bit more detail to me how to upgrade XWIKI with a WAR file? Where can I replace the old WAR file on my server with the newer one?

Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do. I’ve created http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthesta... Let me know if it helps. Thanks -Vincent

  On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:11:20, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

Hi,

I think users want to see examples of migrations from version X to Y instead of the current documentation.

For example my previous mini tutorial could be used here : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingtheweb... rather than what is currently written.

I think 90% of what you wrote is already there. Free free to integrate the 10% missing, that’s exactly what I meant by “Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.” :) Basically instead of responding to the user which helps 1 user I prefer the approach of fixing the doc which helps N users (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HStrategiesforans...). This is what I tried to do by adding a section to the documentation for Maik’s need. Now I need to know if what I did helped or not ;) BTW your mini tutorial is not fully correct since it means potentially loosing new configuration options.

Also we could bundle the Java connectors for all the supported DBs into XWiki by default, but that's a different issue :)

I don’t think Maik wanted to migrate DB, at least that’s not what he said. But yes we should probably also have a tutorial for moving from one DB to another (although we do already have a backup/export page and moving DB is exactly that: export then reimport, either at DB level or at XAR level). Thanks -Vincent PS: One possible issue with Maik’s case is that he may not be a java person. He may not even know how Servlet Container work. This is what I added the new section which doesn’t require any knowledge of Java/Servlet container (no need to even know what a WAR is).  

Thanks, Manuel

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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Hi Manuel/Maik,

On 13 Oct 2014 at 08:28:00, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto: [email protected])) wrote:

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Hello Maik,

In order to upgrade your XWiki installataion from 6.1 to 6.2.1 you need to follow these steps: * Download the 6.2.1 WAR file ( http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-6.2.1.war) and extract it into a folder called "xwiki" * Go to your XWiki 6.1 installation folder and replace your "webapps\xwiki" folder with the one from the previous step * Start your server

This tutorial assumes you're using HyperSQL as the DB by default. If you use another DB you need to copy a Java connector to your "xwiki\WEB-INF\lib" folder and also configure your "xwiki\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml" to connect to your specific DB.

Thanks, Manuel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Maik Dehnert wrote:

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Hello all together,

I am a bit confused looking at upgrading section, because I have never upgraded XWIKI before, and I just have experience with the regular ".exe" installation process. Can you explain in a bit more detail to me how to upgrade XWIKI with a WAR file? Where can I replace the old WAR file on my server with the newer one?

Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.

I’ve created http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthesta...

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks -Vincent

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:11:20, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

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Hi,

I think users want to see examples of migrations from version X to Y instead of the current documentation.

For example my previous mini tutorial could be used here : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingtheweb... rather than what is currently written.

I think 90% of what you wrote is already there. Free free to integrate the 10% missing, that’s exactly what I meant by “Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.” :)

Basically instead of responding to the user which helps 1 user I prefer the approach of fixing the doc which helps N users (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HStrategiesforans...).

This is what I tried to do by adding a section to the documentation for Maik’s need. Now I need to know if what I did helped or not ;)

BTW your mini tutorial is not fully correct since it means potentially loosing new configuration options.

...

Also we could bundle the Java connectors for all the supported DBs into XWiki by default, but that's a different issue :)

I don’t think Maik wanted to migrate DB, at least that’s not what he said. But yes we should probably also have a tutorial for moving from one DB to another (although we do already have a backup/export page and moving DB is exactly that: export then reimport, either at DB level or at XAR level).

I don't think Manuel was really talking about changing the DB but the WAR does not contain any connector, not even HSQLDB one.

Thanks -Vincent

PS: One possible issue with Maik’s case is that he may not be a java person. He may not even know how Servlet Container work. This is what I added the new section which doesn’t require any knowledge of Java/Servlet container (no need to even know what a WAR is).

...

Thanks, Manuel

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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Hi Manuel/Maik,

On 13 Oct 2014 at 08:28:00, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto: [email protected])) wrote:

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Hello Maik,

In order to upgrade your XWiki installataion from 6.1 to 6.2.1 you need to follow these steps: * Download the 6.2.1 WAR file ( http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-6.2.1.war) and extract it into a folder called "xwiki" * Go to your XWiki 6.1 installation folder and replace your "webapps\xwiki" folder with the one from the previous step * Start your server

This tutorial assumes you're using HyperSQL as the DB by default. If you use another DB you need to copy a Java connector to your "xwiki\WEB-INF\lib" folder and also configure your "xwiki\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml" to connect to your specific DB.

Thanks, Manuel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Maik Dehnert wrote:

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Hello all together,

I am a bit confused looking at upgrading section, because I have never upgraded XWIKI before, and I just have experience with the regular ".exe" installation process. Can you explain in a bit more detail to me how to upgrade XWIKI with a WAR file? Where can I replace the old WAR file on my server with the newer one?

Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.

I’ve created http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthesta...

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks -Vincent

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  On 14 Oct 2014 at 10:55:44, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

Yes, Thomas is right. I was talking about bundling all Java connectors in the WAR build.

I don’t think that’s a good idea since the version of the connector you need to use depend on the version of the database you use. Thanks -Vincent

Thanks, Manuel

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Mortagne > > wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:11:20, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto:

[email protected])) wrote:

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Hi,

I think users want to see examples of migrations from version X to Y instead of the current documentation.

For example my previous mini tutorial could be used here :

http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingtheweb...

...

...

rather than what is currently written.

I think 90% of what you wrote is already there. Free free to integrate the 10% missing, that’s exactly what I meant by “Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.” :)

Basically instead of responding to the user which helps 1 user I prefer the approach of fixing the doc which helps N users (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HStrategiesforans... ).

This is what I tried to do by adding a section to the documentation for Maik’s need. Now I need to know if what I did helped or not ;)

BTW your mini tutorial is not fully correct since it means potentially loosing new configuration options.

...

Also we could bundle the Java connectors for all the supported DBs into XWiki by default, but that's a different issue :)

I don’t think Maik wanted to migrate DB, at least that’s not what he said. But yes we should probably also have a tutorial for moving from one DB to another (although we do already have a backup/export page and moving DB is exactly that: export then reimport, either at DB level or at XAR level).

I don't think Manuel was really talking about changing the DB but the WAR does not contain any connector, not even HSQLDB one.

...

Thanks -Vincent

PS: One possible issue with Maik’s case is that he may not be a java

person. He may not even know how Servlet Container work. This is what I added the new section which doesn’t require any knowledge of Java/Servlet container (no need to even know what a WAR is).

...

...

Thanks, Manuel

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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Hi Manuel/Maik,

On 13 Oct 2014 at 08:28:00, Manuel Smeria ([email protected](mailto: [email protected])) wrote:

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Hello Maik,

In order to upgrade your XWiki installataion from 6.1 to 6.2.1 you

need

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to

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follow these steps: * Download the 6.2.1 WAR file ( http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-6.2.1.war) and extract it into a folder called "xwiki" * Go to your XWiki 6.1 installation folder and replace your "webapps\xwiki" folder with the one from the previous step * Start your server

This tutorial assumes you're using HyperSQL as the DB by default. If you use another DB you need to copy a Java connector to your "xwiki\WEB-INF\lib" folder and also configure your "xwiki\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml" to connect to your specific DB.

Thanks, Manuel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Maik Dehnert wrote:

> Hello all together, > > I am a bit confused looking at upgrading section, because I have never > upgraded XWIKI before, and I just have experience with the regular ".exe" > installation process. Can you explain in a bit more detail to me how to > upgrade XWIKI with a WAR file? Where can I replace the old WAR file on my > server with the newer one?

Would be great to understand how we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it extra clear what you have to do.

I’ve created

http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthesta...

...

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks -Vincent