[Moin-user] Solved: Layout of the directory trees

[Marx, Stefan ext. MA Fa. Lynx]

Dear Roger, hi guys,

that portion of information solved our problem perfect in 
an non-time-consuming manner! Thanks a whole lot!
And cleared the foggy aera of serveral wikiconfig.py's we
had in different directories. Now we have only two with
exactly the same content ;=).

Greeting and a very nice weekend!

cu Stefan <Stefan.Marx at marx-consulting.COM>

--- "Marx, Stefan ext. MA Fa. Lynx"
<Stefan.Marxext.MAFa.Lynx at rewe-group.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> we want to update the binaries in an existing MoinMoin
> from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4 and migrate the data if nessecary.
>    The 1.5.3 stuff is devided over two disk drives. The 
> pages stuff goes to e:\moin\ ... and the portion with 
> ..\server ..\config is located under c:\python24\share 
> (yes, unfortunatlly Window$ based).
>    When we run the setup.py script, there is no update
> of the c:\python\share directory (an the installation
> is not longer 'reactiv') and the directories are created
> under e:\moin\<wikiname>\share.
>    We rate this way of dividing the python installation 
> from the MoinMoin location better since the things a 
> clear divided. But I found no hint in the config area 
> where to configure that location and -- as noted -- doing
> this way is spoiling the installation and we have to recover
> from our backup.
> 
> Thanks for reading, ..::**THX**::.. for writing o' cause.
> 
> Greetings from Cologne, Germany,
> 
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan Marx
> Marx Consulting (extern)

If I understand the problem correctly, I think on your previous
installation of 1.5.3 you ran setup.py something like this:

   python setup.py --quiet install --record=install.log

and that installed Moin in /python24/Lib/site-packages/MoinMoin/ and 
/python24/share/Moin/.  This is the normal place for the Moin files. 
It is recommended to have the wiki "instance" located elsewhere outside
the python24 directory, or even on another drive.

On your upgrade to 1.5.4 you are trying to do:

   python setup.py --quiet install --prefix="e:\moin"
--record=install.log

where using the --prefix changes the location of the Moin software --
and you probably don't want to do that.

To upgrade from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4, you probably only need to run the first
command form above and you are done.  However, if you copied the
underlay directory from /python24/share/moin/ to the e: drive, you may
want to recopy that to catch any documentation updates in the wiki
underlay pages.  Also it is a good practice to recopy wikiconfig.py and
reapply any customizations for your local installation settings.  For
the 1.5.3 to 1.5.4 upgrade in particular, copying the underlay
directory and wikiconfig.py is probably not necessary.

Also, you will want to delete the 1.5.4 Moin files that were
incorrectly installed on the e: drive.  Be careful, I may have
misunderstood your situation.

Roger Haase

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