Hey Christopher,
It's probably too late, but I do have a pretty well documented process for
upgrading to 1.6, here:
http://moinmo.in/RickVanderveer/MigratingFromMoin15ToMoin16
I think this weekend I'm going to do one more polishing pass, then rename it
and link it from the MoinMoinDownloads page.
Sorry it was so painful (I had similar problems myself, but I think my
documentation should now alleviate that).
-Rick
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I hate to whine, but I just lost the last 3 hours in a futile attempt to
> upgrade
> my MoinMoin wiki from 1.5.6 to 1.6.3 on a Windows box with Python 2.5
>
> Here is what I encountered:
>
> 1. The upgrade process is not documented, as far as I can tell. There is a
> migration readme, but nothing that covers the overall process. Since there
> is no
> installer or script to automate the upgrade I would at least expect some
> documentation on the steps.
>
> 2. After reading through the documentation that I could find, I determined
> that
> I needed to create a full backup of my code directories and my wiki
> directories,
> install the new version over top of the existing and finally do a data
> migration
> step. The backup and install worked fine, but it took me a while to
> understand
> how to do the data migration. I finally ended up running moin.py from my
> wiki
> directory. It said it did something and didn't report any errors, so I was
> satisfied.
>
> 3. At this point I expected everything to just work, but it didn't. Hitting
> the
> site returned a CGI error. No idea why, the cgi file had not changed and
> none of
> the paths had changed. After about an hour of screwing around and searching
> for
> answers, I finally copied the new cgi file that came with the new version
> to my
> wiki and modified it to match my set up. Voila, now Moin runs, sort of.
>
> 4. Moin returns some pythonic error complaining about uft-8 being a bad
> encoding. After looking at the debug information I figured out that the
> problem
> was the author's name Jurgen somebody. The u in his name was a unicode
> character
> and disliked. So I searched through all of the files in my wiki for his
> name,
> removed it and voila, now my wiki runs, sort of.
>
> 5. Authentication was busted, I could log in but it didn't know who I was
> (no
> profile). My Start Page was missing (yes it was configured, that hadn't
> changed). When I brought up an existing page stuff like the TableOfContents
> macro no longer worked.
>
> At that point I gave up and reverted to 1.5.6.
>
> In general I like MoinMoin and I do want to upgrade. But there needs to be
> easily accessible help on how to do it.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Chris
>
>
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