Hi Vincent,
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Vincent Gerris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just did something like this recently and think I can explain it briefly.
> It's a bit of work and I get some errors I do not understand, but it works.
> Here's how I did it:
>
> 1. Make a complete export of the Wiki in the admin backend.
> 2. Extract the XAR you have.
> 3. Edit package.xml : remove all lines NOT referring to the Blog space.
> 4. Delete all folders except the Blog one.
> 5. Decide the spacenaam you would like to give it: I chose Blogboek (let's
> call it that for the rest of this explanation).
> 6. Change the foldername to Blogboek.
> 7. Change all references to Blog in Blogboek. I did that by running a
> script
> on the commandline (using Linux) that replaces .Blog by .Blogboek.
> 8. You should now have the package.xml containing the subscription of the
> files in the Blogboek folder. Note that this also contains all the
> Blog-posts that were in the Blog space.
> 9. To get the categories displayed properly, change line 113 in
> CategoriesPanel.xml:
> #getCategoriesHierarchy('Blogboek' $tree)
> 10. When ready, put everything in a zip and rename it to XAR. MAke sure the
> folder and file are in the root of the zip, not in a folder (chack by view
> it).
> 11. Now you can import the XAR in the Xwiki admin backend.
>
> The only error I encounteres was a list of files named Blog.xxx.xxx that
> were not imported.
> It seems somehow there is metadata that knows the files came from the Blog
> space.
> The other files (Blogboek.xxx.xxx) are imported correctly, so the result
> was
> what I wanted:
> a seperate space with the complete Blog functionality, seperate from the
> Xwiki core.
>
> Note that Blog is in development and there are irritating bugs in the
> editor.
> http://n2.nabble.com/Blog-2-0-Upgrade-and-WYSIWYG-td3266917.html#a3266917
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XABLOG-63
>
> I really hope a syntax 2 version will be in a coming Xwiki release using
> the
> new editor.
> Thank you all for your help, hope this is usefull!
You really went through a painful process. There's a much easier way to
create a new blog instance in your wiki. I'll document it ASAP and will
point to the documentation page from here.
Guillaume
>
>
> vmassol wrote:
> >
> > Since this is such a frequently asked question it would be nice if
> > someone could:
> >
> > 1) document it on xwiki.org, either:
> > - in the FAQ
> > - as a code snippet on http://dev.xwiki.org
> >
> > or even better:
> >
> > 2) create an application (XAR) that does this and upload it on
> > http://code.xwiki.org
> >
> > Anyone up for this? :)
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Campbell, Timothy D wrote:
> >
> >> that's what I was thinking but I continue to get an error when I
> >> create a ClassSheet (it will not allow me to). I keep getting an
> >> error every time. a 4.26 while parsing velocity error. Do you have
> >> any information or installation errors I might have? Are certain
> >> velocity or java files/programs necessary that are not in the
> >> documentation?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >> From: [email protected] on behalf of Esbach, Brandon
> >> Sent: Tue 1/8/2008 12:50 PM
> >> To: XWiki Users
> >> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Blog/Clone
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Tim,
> >>
> >> If you look through Nabble, this has been described a few times
> >> before. It's fairly easy to do.
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> >> Behalf Of Campbell, Timothy D
> >> Sent: 08 January 2008 17:39
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [xwiki-users] Blog/Clone
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone successfully created a second blog in a single wiki? If
> >> so, please give me some guidence on how to do this task. Also, what
> >> could be a source of a velocity parsing error while creating a class
> >> sheet? Please respond to help progress my research.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Tim
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