[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-26 Thread kdt
On Jan 26, 1:57 am, Simon Martin simon.jk.mar...@gmail.com wrote: I would upgrade Trac from 0.9 to 0.11 on the Linux machine first Thanks, this is good advice, I can see why it is worth doing - and I hadn't thought of it. When moving from Linux to Windows I see no specific problems, just

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-26 Thread Flatfender
P.S. @Matt: If you don't want to help with Windows issues, why do you answer at all? :) To clarify my original response. The first of which is that my experience is that Windows gets no love from the open source community and you'll most likely get less responses, that is a big deal when the

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-26 Thread Vincent Polite
To add to the wall of text, keep in mind that when I say shut down the app --- remember Trac is a web app. If you have control over DNS or the web server itself, then you can easily make it so people can't pop in and change anything while you are working. But if you don't shut down SVN as well,

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-26 Thread Keith Turner
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Vincent Polite vpol...@socialnetconnect.com wrote: Lots of good advice Vincent Thanks for all the info. I'll read careful and digest. Some of this falls into presenting a case - there are issues outside our limited IT department that are driving the idea of

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-25 Thread kdt
On Jan 24, 9:21 pm, Flatfender flatfen...@gmail.com wrote: I would have to ask why you *need* to migrate from a Linux server to a Windows one?  Also I would not migrate databases until you had it working on the new server.  Only try to change one thing at a time, that will make it easier

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-25 Thread Simon Martin
Hi, Please note: I haven't done such a migration yet, these are just my thoughts! Other members of this mailing list may have more experience. I would upgrade Trac from 0.9 to 0.11 on the Linux machine first, see: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUpgrade

[Trac] Re: Migration - some initial research and request for documentation

2009-01-24 Thread Flatfender
I'm a Linux guy, so this is biased. :) But my experience with almost every open source app I've used/installed as a sys admin, is that very few people put much effort into answering questions about install/config problems on windows. Just b/c LAMP has windows counterparts and can work doesn't