[Moin-user] Upgrading from 1.5.3

[Sebastian Haase]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:
>> I want to upgrade from 1.5.3 to the latest version, 1.8.0.
>
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>   b) Invoke the following command:
>       moin --config-dir=/path/to/config_dir \
>            --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ migration data
>
>       Note: If you did not use setup.py, you can call the moin script
>             directly. It is located in MoinMoin/script/moin.py
>
> Which config dir should I specify, the old one or the new one?

The new one (of course you need to have a working config in there).

> What is the wiki-url exactly? Is the slash on the end of it necessary?

> It is an expression that is matched by farmconfig's "wikis" list (just
> like a URL you use to access your wiki by browser - but without the
> http:// part).
>
> If you don't run a farmconfig, but just a single wiki, every wiki url
> will work.
>

So for "normal", i.e. non farmwikis this  --wiki-url=... option could
be left off entirely ?
I run a DesktopVersion, so there is no proper URL that I could think of !

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase