Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
Yes, Thomas is right. I was talking about bundling all Java connectors in the WAR build. Thanks, Manuel On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Mortagne thomas.morta...@xwiki.com wrote: 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 ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
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 ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
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 maik.dehn...@gmail.com 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? Thank you very much in advance. Maik ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
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. Also we could bundle the Java connectors for all the supported DBs into XWiki by default, but that's a different issue :) Thanks, Manuel On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, vinc...@massol.net 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 ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
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). 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
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
On 13 Oct 2014 at 09:33:31, vinc...@massol.net (vinc...@massol.net(mailto: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. The truth on this is that we don’t have any easy way to upgrade an install at this level yet… Thanks -Vincent 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). 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
Re: [xwiki-users] Fwd: Upgrading a XWIKI installation 6.1 to 6.21 usings WARs
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
