On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:33:31, [email protected]
([email protected](mailto:[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#HUpgradingthewebapp
> > rather than what is currently written.
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> 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#HStrategiesforansweringquestions).
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> 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.
The truth on this is that we don’t have any easy way to upgrade an install at
this level yet…
Thanks
-Vincent
> > 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
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> 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).
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> > Thanks,
> > Manuel
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, [email protected]
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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:
> > > >
> > > > > 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#HUpgradingthestandarddistribution
> > >
> > > Let me know if it helps.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -Vincent
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