> We are using the MoinMoin for internal department wiki. Unfortunately
> this was never upgraded from 1.2.1 version from 2004. Now the honor is
> on me to upgrade this to 1.5.9.

:)

As there won't be updates to 1.5.x any more, you could also consider
upgrading to 1.6.3 instead of upgrading to an already rather outdated
version.

> I have been looking at the documents (i looked into the CHANGES and
> README.migration), but i could not get a straight forward solution to
> this.

Well, there is no magic "doallthework" script and the upgrade you are
doing spans 4 years of moin development including 2 major upgrades (1.2
to 1.3, 1.5 to 1.6), so expect this to be quite some work.

README.migration has the most important informations you need for
converting your data directory. Read it (again), read it completely. You
maybe have noticed that the recent stuff is at the beginning, while the
older stuff is rather near the end of the file.

You have to run all the "old" mig scripts. The final old script enables
the new style mig scripts to work. Then you have to run the new style
mig scripts.

If you migrate an important production wiki, it is maybe a good idea to
install the new wiki (for test purposes) to a different location first
(other url, other code location, maybe using another machine), so you
don't interfere with the old wiki running.

Once you have done the migration, config changes etc. and have the new
wiki up and running: test it for a while. Then do the real migration of
the production wiki (you have experience now doing it and you can use
the config files from the test wiki. just migrate the current data dir
from the production wiki again).

In case you encounter problems, ask concrete questions and maybe join us
on #moin irc channel for support.



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