On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > > > > > On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:11:20, Manuel Smeria > (man...@xwiki.com(mailto:man...@xwiki.com)) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I think users want to see examples of migrations from version X to Y >> instead of the current documentation. >> >> For example my previous mini tutorial could be used here : >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthewebapp >> rather than what is currently written. > > I think 90% of what you wrote is already there. Free free to integrate the > 10% missing, that’s exactly what I meant by “Would be great to understand how > we can improve http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to > make it extra clear what you have to do.” :) > > Basically instead of responding to the user which helps 1 user I prefer the > approach of fixing the doc which helps N users (see > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HStrategiesforansweringquestions). > > This is what I tried to do by adding a section to the documentation for > Maik’s need. Now I need to know if what I did helped or not ;) > > BTW your mini tutorial is not fully correct since it means potentially > loosing new configuration options. > >> Also we could bundle the Java connectors for all the supported DBs into >> XWiki by default, but that's a different issue :) > > I don’t think Maik wanted to migrate DB, at least that’s not what he said. > But yes we should probably also have a tutorial for moving from one DB to > another (although we do already have a backup/export page and moving DB is > exactly that: export then reimport, either at DB level or at XAR level).
I don't think Manuel was really talking about changing the DB but the WAR does not contain any connector, not even HSQLDB one. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: One possible issue with Maik’s case is that he may not be a java person. > He may not even know how Servlet Container work. This is what I added the new > section which doesn’t require any knowledge of Java/Servlet container (no > need to even know what a WAR is). > >> Thanks, >> Manuel >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, vinc...@massol.net >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Manuel/Maik, >> > >> > On 13 Oct 2014 at 08:28:00, Manuel Smeria (man...@xwiki.com(mailto: >> > man...@xwiki.com)) wrote: >> > >> > > Hello Maik, >> > > >> > > In order to upgrade your XWiki installataion from 6.1 to 6.2.1 you need >> > to >> > > follow these steps: >> > > * Download the 6.2.1 WAR file ( >> > > http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-6.2.1.war) and >> > > extract it into a folder called "xwiki" >> > > * Go to your XWiki 6.1 installation folder and replace your >> > "webapps\xwiki" >> > > folder with the one from the previous step >> > > * Start your server >> > > >> > > This tutorial assumes you're using HyperSQL as the DB by default. If you >> > > use another DB you need to copy a Java connector to your >> > > "xwiki\WEB-INF\lib" folder and also configure your >> > > "xwiki\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml" to connect to your specific DB. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Manuel >> > > >> > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Maik Dehnert >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hello all together, >> > > > >> > > > I am a bit confused looking at upgrading section, because I have never >> > > > upgraded XWIKI before, and I just have experience with the regular >> > ".exe" >> > > > installation process. Can you explain in a bit more detail to me how to >> > > > upgrade XWIKI with a WAR file? Where can I replace the old WAR file on >> > my >> > > > server with the newer one? >> > >> > Would be great to understand how we can improve >> > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade to make it >> > extra clear what you have to do. >> > >> > I’ve created >> > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthestandarddistribution >> > >> > Let me know if it helps. >> > >> > Thanks >> > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
