[xwiki-users] Installing XWiki 8.4.3 using windows exe

[novnovice]

I'm not very good with java so I'm probably missing something very obvious.

The install in on windows 2012 r2. tomcat is running on port 8080. When I
browse to 8080 I see the tomcat success page. The XWiki 8.4.3 installer
seemed to go ok. I created the database and user (sql server), edited the
hibernate xml.

When I run the "start xwiki" the dos windows does ok for a bit and then
starts showing some failures like

2016-12-26 18:38:15.451:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:main: FAILED
ServerConnecto
r@205b73d8{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:8080}: java.net.BindException: Address already
in u
se: bind
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)

viewing xwiki just show this:

HTTP Status 404 - /xwiki/bin/view/Main/
type Status report
message /xwiki/bin/view/Main/
description The requested resource is not available.
Apache Tomcat/8.0.30

Does this mean that tomcat is using 8080 for something already and xwiki
can't take it over? I could change the port that xwiki will run on; but will
wait for input.

BTW, as far as I can tell the install docs on xwiki.org do not include any
info on a windows exe type install.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[novnovice]

Very good, interesting page for sure.



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[xwiki-users] Importing a file system based set of folders with text, doc, files

[novnovice]

I know xwiki can import various kinds of data one at a time per
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Imports. Here is my more
complex scenario.

We have been adding text files, or doc files, to a windows file system set
of folders. The normal pattern has been something like this:

*-dir root*
--*dir acronis backup*
---*dir 20150101 install on server01*
text file somename.txt
---*dir 20150520 update to version x.x*
text file re.txt
image screenshot01.png
--*dir backblaze*
---*dir 20140105 install and configure*
txt file re.txt
etc

So, there are topic areas at the highest level (acronis, backblaze) and
normally under them folders named for the date (20150101) with a title
(install on server01). Inside the folder is a mix of text files, word
documents, and images.

I would use the top level folder as a category or topic area inside xwiki.
I would use the date as a data point on the wiki entry, to make sure I can
sort by date of occurrance.

The text or word files are often named re.txt. Sometimes they have a more
distinctive name, but mostly the file name is not a viable name for a wiki
entry. The second part of the folder name would be better for that.

So, no one needs to parse all the details of our existing folder/file hive.
I realize there is no way that any wiki system can simply import and
translate that into something that would be presentable inside the wiki. I
expect to write some code (non-php, I'd probably use vb) that traverses the
hive that we have, and writes elements of what it finds into an xml file or
something else that can otherwise be pulled into xwiki. the text and doc
files would be converted into pages and the images...I'm not familiar enough
with xwiki to know if it'd be best to leave those files in place on the disk
and simply references them in the related wiki entry, or better to move them
into the wiki system somehow.

I could even write the wiki entries directly into the database. xwiki has an
api, possibly that would be useful for this purpose?

Probably an issue that has been encountered many times in the past. I'd
appreciate any tips and or pointers to articles about this.



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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[Vincent Massol]

> On 26 Dec 2016, at 21:47, novnovice  wrote:
> 
> OK, thanks that's the info I was looking for. I kind of guessed that the
> mulitple input syntaxes would be most useful when importing pages from
> another type of wiki. When I configure the test server I'll use xwiki 2.1
> syntax and see how it goes.

To be complete, it depends on the syntax. For some syntaxes we have implemented 
“serializers” (we call them Renderers), i.e. the ability to transform from an 
XWiki AST into an output syntax.

The information is available here:
http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes

In the table, whenever you see “output syntax”  as ticked, it means XWiki can 
convert to that syntax from all other syntaxes. For example you can convert 
from, say, MediaWiki syntax to, say, XHTML 1.0. Or from Confluence syntax to 
Markdown syntax.

It also means that when “output syntax” is ticked, it’s possible to use the 
WYSIWYG editor for that syntax. However there can be limitations, depending on 
what the syntax supports (there may be some HTML elements not supported by the 
syntax for example, in which case they’d be ignored).

Thanks
-Vincent

Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[novnovice]

OK, thanks that's the info I was looking for. I kind of guessed that the
mulitple input syntaxes would be most useful when importing pages from
another type of wiki. When I configure the test server I'll use xwiki 2.1
syntax and see how it goes.



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Re: [xwiki-users] [myxwiki] new wiki request

[Thomas Mortagne]

You can access your new wiki on http://oseres.myxwiki.org.

Enjoy !

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Olivier Seres  wrote:
> description : testing (auto upgrade and more)
> owner name : oseres
> wikiname : oseres.myxwiki.com
>
> Thanks
>
> Olivier



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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[Vincent Massol]

> On 26 Dec 2016, at 21:19, Thomas Mortagne  wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 26 Dec 2016, at 19:55, novnovice  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like input on which input syntax might be best to use. I am not
>>> habituated to any syntax, only light exposure to mediawiki and wikis in
>>> general. I would value a syntax which is simple and terse.
>>> 
>>> xwiki has gone out of it's way to support many input syntaxes. The safe
>>> choice for portability (of skillset and pages) would seem to be mediawiki.
>>> But I might guess that the xwiki syntax was developed in order to better
>>> utilize the special features of xwiki, and so in xwiki, xwiki syntax would
>>> have to be the best and the default syntax.
>> 
>> Yes you’re right. We’ve developed the XWiki syntax to be the most complete 
>> syntax and so that it works well with WYSIWYG, i.e. that it’s easy to 
>> convert from/to (X)HTML.
>> 
>> I’d recommend that you user the XWiki syntax if you can (XWiki Syntax 2.1 to 
>> be precise).
>> 
>>> If one chooses xwiki syntax, is there a way to convert/export to mediawiki
>>> syntax if needed?
>> 
>> Yes that’s possible, see 
>> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MediaWiki/MediaWiki+XML/
> 
> Actually this module only support parsing mediawiki syntax, not
> serializing it. So mediawiki -> xwiki is easy but there is nothing
> well tested right now for xwiki -> mediawiki.

Yes sorry, my bad, I read too quickly and thought you were asking to convert 
*from* mediawiki. As Thomas said, we don’t have any easy way to convert back to 
MediaWiki syntax.

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
>> You can also convert page by page, see 
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HChoosingaSyntax
>>  and 
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HConvertingbetweenSyntaxes
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 

Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[Thomas Mortagne]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 26 Dec 2016, at 19:55, novnovice  wrote:
>>
>> I would like input on which input syntax might be best to use. I am not
>> habituated to any syntax, only light exposure to mediawiki and wikis in
>> general. I would value a syntax which is simple and terse.
>>
>> xwiki has gone out of it's way to support many input syntaxes. The safe
>> choice for portability (of skillset and pages) would seem to be mediawiki.
>> But I might guess that the xwiki syntax was developed in order to better
>> utilize the special features of xwiki, and so in xwiki, xwiki syntax would
>> have to be the best and the default syntax.
>
> Yes you’re right. We’ve developed the XWiki syntax to be the most complete 
> syntax and so that it works well with WYSIWYG, i.e. that it’s easy to convert 
> from/to (X)HTML.
>
> I’d recommend that you user the XWiki syntax if you can (XWiki Syntax 2.1 to 
> be precise).
>
>> If one chooses xwiki syntax, is there a way to convert/export to mediawiki
>> syntax if needed?
>
> Yes that’s possible, see 
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MediaWiki/MediaWiki+XML/

Actually this module only support parsing mediawiki syntax, not
serializing it. So mediawiki -> xwiki is easy but there is nothing
well tested right now for xwiki -> mediawiki.

>
> You can also convert page by page, see 
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HChoosingaSyntax
>  and 
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HConvertingbetweenSyntaxes
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> [snip]
>



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Re: [xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[Vincent Massol]

Hi,

> On 26 Dec 2016, at 19:55, novnovice  wrote:
> 
> I would like input on which input syntax might be best to use. I am not
> habituated to any syntax, only light exposure to mediawiki and wikis in
> general. I would value a syntax which is simple and terse.
> 
> xwiki has gone out of it's way to support many input syntaxes. The safe
> choice for portability (of skillset and pages) would seem to be mediawiki.
> But I might guess that the xwiki syntax was developed in order to better
> utilize the special features of xwiki, and so in xwiki, xwiki syntax would
> have to be the best and the default syntax. 

Yes you’re right. We’ve developed the XWiki syntax to be the most complete 
syntax and so that it works well with WYSIWYG, i.e. that it’s easy to convert 
from/to (X)HTML.

I’d recommend that you user the XWiki syntax if you can (XWiki Syntax 2.1 to be 
precise).

> If one chooses xwiki syntax, is there a way to convert/export to mediawiki
> syntax if needed?

Yes that’s possible, see 
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MediaWiki/MediaWiki+XML/

You can also convert page by page, see 
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HChoosingaSyntax 
and 
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HConvertingbetweenSyntaxes

Thanks
-Vincent

[snip]

[xwiki-users] Which input syntax to choose?

[novnovice]

I would like input on which input syntax might be best to use. I am not
habituated to any syntax, only light exposure to mediawiki and wikis in
general. I would value a syntax which is simple and terse.

xwiki has gone out of it's way to support many input syntaxes. The safe
choice for portability (of skillset and pages) would seem to be mediawiki.
But I might guess that the xwiki syntax was developed in order to better
utilize the special features of xwiki, and so in xwiki, xwiki syntax would
have to be the best and the default syntax. 

If one chooses xwiki syntax, is there a way to convert/export to mediawiki
syntax if needed?



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[xwiki-users] [myxwiki] new wiki request

[Olivier Seres]

description : testing (auto upgrade and more)
owner name : oseres
wikiname : oseres.myxwiki.com

Thanks

Olivier

[xwiki-users] [myxwiki] XWiki Enterprise 8.4.3 Upgrade

[Thomas Mortagne]

Hi everyone,

myxwiki.org has been upgraded to XE 8.4.3. If you own a wiki hosted
there you should have a look at the release notes for this version at:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/

You should automatically get an upgrade wizard for your wiki when you
login as admin.
For more details see the upgrade guide available at :
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingwikidocuments

To be notified of the myxwiki.org server upgrade you can follow
myxwiki on twitter:
http://twitter.com/myxwiki

Thanks,
-XWiki Community