[Moin-user] Migrating from 0.11

[Rick Vanderveer]

Just to second what Thomas already said; upgrading to the later
versions of Moin is worth it.  Each new release get successively more
features that are not only nicer and more powerful for your users, but
also nicer and more powerful for you as the admin.

Rather than mucking with a "live" wiki server, I suggest setting up a
virtual machine (a free player from VMware or Virtualbox.org) and
duplicating your wiki onto that.  You can then take your time
upgrading, breaking, and fixing on that, getting everything working.
Once done, you can transfer everything back (after upgrading, of
course).

-Rick





On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Problem is, I wont be able to upgrade to 1.5.9 - it's a live environment, with other things running on the server.
>
> Hmm, I don't see the problem.
>
> If you have to be extremely careful due to "mission critical or 24/7"
> requirements, you can setup a test wiki in parallel and first try the
> stuff there.
>
> With rather recent moins (e.g. 1.7.1), trying something separate gets
> rather trivial because you just have to start ./wikiserver.py to have a
> running wiki. No server setup required.
>
>> Ill have a look into upgrading from .11 to 1.2.4, but was hoping there was some easier way.
>
> It's not a question of easier or more complicated. It is just the
> question if you / your wiki users can manage a really big leap in one go
> or prefer to do 2 or 3 smaller leaps.
>
> 1.3 and 1.6 are kind of "boundaries" where bigger changes happened (but
> all have migration script support).
>
> In the end, the total effort to go from 0.11 to 1.2.4 to 1.5.9 is only
> slightly more than when going from 0.11 to 1.5.9.
>
>>  I guess .11 is so archaic no-one else has done this.
>
> I am sure many moin users have successfully done that step - about 6 or
> 7 years ago. :D
>
>> Due to time constraints I may just have to install .11 on the new server and just run with that.
>
> As already offered, I can help.
>
> I think it would just create an even bigger problem in the future if you
> keep the stoneage stuff for longer.
>
> And I also guess nobody tested 0.11 on python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (although
> that might be not a big problem because newer pythons are usually
> compatible to older ones).
>
> And of course newer moins tend to have some bugs fixed that the older
> stuff had and also some nice features you might like.
>
>
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