[Moin-user] Upgrading from 1.5.3

[Rick Vanderveer]

Hey Karl,
"working" means the directory that's the active one, the one that would be
hit when someone visits your moin wiki.  The one that if you edited a page,
would have your most recent page.

Just a suggestion:
You should try experimenting with upgrading on a virtual machine. Rebuild
your wiki onto that VM by copying your data over, and perfectly duplicating
it, then practice upgrading. You'll find that it really helps to play and
understand it's workings without fear of actually "breaking" anything.  An
advantage of a virtual machine versus a real spare computer is that VM's
allow you to "snapshot", so you can *really* play, break it, and revert back
to the working snapshot.

www.vmware.com
www.virtualbox.org

-Rick



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> It's me again :-)
>
> I haven't yet had th time or the courage to upgrade my old 1.5.3
> installation to 1.8.x. And I still have a question:
>
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:18 +0100, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > <snip>
> > >   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 does "working" mean? Do I have to set up a second, fully
> operational wiki, and then run moin? Where does the migrated data go?Is
> the existing old data modified in place or is it fixed and copied into
> the new wiki's data directories? Or do I point the new install at the
> old data directories?
>
> Sorry to be so confused (and confusing)
>
> Regards, K.
>
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