On 14 Oct 2014 at 10:55:44, Manuel Smeria
(man...@xwiki.com(mailto:man...@xwiki.com)) wrote:
> Yes, Thomas is right. I was talking about bundling all Java connectors in
> the WAR build.
I don’t think that’s a good idea since the version of the connector you need to
use depend on the version of the database you use.
Thanks
-Vincent
> Thanks,
> Manuel
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Mortagne > > wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, 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
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