On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Reimar Bauer wrote: > On 20.10.2010 06:25, andy thomas wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Reimar Bauer wrote: >> >>> On 17.10.2010 14:41, andy thomas wrote: >>>> I am completely new to MoinMoin but I have been given the task of setting >>>> up a >>>> new MoinMoin wiki using content from an existing MoinMoin server. I've >>>> succeeded in getting MoinMoin 1.92 up & running on a FreeBSD system using >>>> lighttpd and the fastCGI server and I've been sent a tar archive from the >>>> old >>>> server of the existing MoinMoin content to be served but I can't get the >>>> wiki >>>> to display this content. >>>> >>>> The archive contains a series of directories under which there are >>>> subdirectories named 'cache' and 'revisions' plus two files called >>>> 'current' >>>> and 'edit-log'. I've moved these into ../data/pages as I gues this is the >>>> right >>>> place for them but I can only access folders like 'Recent Changes', 'Find >>>> Page', etc and not the ones I have added from the archive. >>>> >>>> What do I need to do it get these additional pages to show? >>> >>> >>> Do you have created a new wiki instance? You are speaking from moving >>> into ../data/pages. Is it the correct instance? What you have got looks >>> like an archieve of the old instance. >>> Do you have a meta file in the data dir of the archieve. What is its >>> content? >> >> I have now got full access to the old instance on the other server and the >> meta file says: >> >> data_format_revision: 01070000 >> >> I have replaced the meta file in my new instance (which reads >> data_format_revision: 1090200) with the old one but the pages I have added >> from the old instance archive still don't appear. > > This is likly because you look at the wrong instance for the pages. > Assuming you have setup the moin-1.9.3 wiki instance by using wsgi > then you point to your wikiconfig file by a sys.path entry similiar to > http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/422feb8d48ac/wiki/server/moin.wsgi#l32 > The wikiconfig in that dir should look similiar to > http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/422feb8d48ac/wiki/config/wikiconfig.py > > The instance / data dir you access by the wiki is shown in the logs and > in SystemInfo. Check if it is a different one than the one you copied > the files to. (To see this full details your username must be setup as > superuser) > >> >> To be honest, I have never used MoinMoin as a user before so I have no >> idea how to access content under ../data.pages from the Wiki. However, I >> now have root access to the server hosting the old instance and I have >> been given some Wiki login usernames and passwords which don't work (and >> the original Wiki superuser password has been lost). Is there a file in >> the old MoinMoin installation that I could edit and reset the user and >> superuser passwords? > > You can reset a password of a user from the commandline > see HelpOnMoinCommand moin ... account resetpw > The superuser is defined in wikiconfig.py it is a list of names. Any > username listed there is the superuser. (You can create a new user name > and add it there)
Thanks for this info - I didn't know about the moin command line utilities before but I was able to get everything fixed on the old wiki server once I had reset the superuser password and reset some of the user passwords as well, as all of this information was lost when the previous sysadmin left the company. >> I've also noticed my ../underlay/pages on the new instance has very little >> in it (just BadContent and LanguageSetup) compared with the old instance - >> would it be OK to copy all the folders starting with 'HelpOn...' from the >> old instance to the new one? > > No > > just read LanguageSetup and install all page packs you want. I've done this and that's now working fine, thanks. >>> If the content of the old instance is dependent to an older moin version >>> you need to migrate it. See docs/README_FIRST >> >> I had a look at this and also at all the migration scripts under >> ../MoinMoin/script/migration but the data format of the 1.7.0 data files >> from the old instance looks identical to that for 1.9.2? Or am I missing >> somthing very important here? > > You didn't looked in all scripts. > 1.9.3 is the recent version. And yes run the script. It has not that > much to do as between 1.5 and 1.6 but it has to do some changes. e.g. > for drewings. I will try this today. Thanks for all your help. cheers, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
