Thanks Sam. I'd overlooked that I needed to move the entire Data.fs file and was trying to import my Plone sites one by one.
I found the info for migrating the portal catalog in the FAQ document in the Zope documentation and everything seems to work fine. Thanks again. Ben "Sam Luxford-Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] oops - I posted that reply to the wrong list - sorry for the cross posting. Need more caffine this morning. Sam On 07/12/05, Sam Luxford-Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Yes - but some products may have windows specific versions (mxodbc > spings to mind) > > 2. Ensure that you stop the windows services before copying data.fs. - > Also read the docs that come with zope 2.8.x (isnt 2.8.1 buggy?? - > 2.8.4 is preferred?) I cant remember exactly, but you need to carry > out a few steps to migrate the portal catalog before your plone site > will work at all. > > If you want to eliminate any possible migration problems between the > two the platforms then you could always setup a test windows machine > with zope 2.84 and plone 2.11 - copy the data.fs to that, carry out > the upgrades check its all working an dthen copy it onto the linux > box. Its a fair bit more work but at least to could narrow down the > problems to either the upgrade or the migration and then try to solve > from there. > > I did this in reverse - migrated a site from linux to windows and had > no major probs so it should work fine going the other way. > > Cheers, > > Sam > > > On 07/12/05, Ben Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to move all my existing Plone sites on Windows (Win2K, Plone > > 2.0.4, Zope 2.7.0) to Linux (Ubuntu 5.10, Plone 2.1-1, Zope 2.8.1-5). > > > > 1. Is it possible to export Plone sites from Win2k and import them into > > Zope on Linux? > > > > 2. Assuming the answer to question 1 above is yes, do I have to upgrade > > Plone on Win2k to version 2.1 and migrate all my sites to Plone 2.1 on > > the Win2k server before I can import them into Zope 2.8.1/Plone 2.1 on > > Linux? > > > > I've tried importing a site directly from Zope 2.7.0 on the Win2k server > > to Zope 2.8.1 on the Linux server and I get an error with the following > > traceback: > > > > ------------------------- > > Traceback (innermost last): > > Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 113, in publish > > Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply > > Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 40, in call_object > > Module OFS.ObjectManager, line 561, in manage_importObject > > Module OFS.ObjectManager, line 583, in _importObjectFromFile > > Module OFS.ObjectManager, line 293, in _setObject > > Module Products.CMFCore.CMFCatalogAware, line 186, in manage_afterAdd > > Module Products.CMFCore.CMFCatalogAware, line 222, in __recurse > > Module Products.CMFCore.CMFCatalogAware, line 185, in manage_afterAdd > > Module Products.CMFCore.CMFCatalogAware, line 50, in indexObject > > Module Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool, line 404, in indexObject > > Module Products.CMFCore.CatalogTool, line 353, in reindexObject > > Module Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool, line 425, in catalog_object > > Module Products.ZCatalog.ZCatalog, line 565, in catalog_object > > Module Products.ZCatalog.Catalog, line 361, in catalogObject > > Module Products.PluginIndexes.common.UnIndex, line 220, in index_object > > Module Products.PluginIndexes.common.UnIndex, line 247, in _index_object > > Module Products.PluginIndexes.common.UnIndex, line 205, in > > insertForwardIndexEntry > > AttributeError: _length > > ------------------------- > > > > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Setup mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=ick _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
