Hi, 2014-11-12 14:33 GMT+01:00 Manjunath Kashyap <[email protected]>:
> Hi Vincent, > > Thanks for the reply and all the links. Yes as you *said *the current wiki > is very very old. > These are the links which i went through for the upgrade process. > As depicted in the documentation(links), the Xwiki pages needs to be > exported into a XRAR format to re-import them into the latest version. > I would like to mention that the current version of our wiki(0.9.840) does > not support the export option for XRAR format. > I think xar import/export was added in 1.0, but you should be able to migrate from 0.9.840 to 1.0 then use xar format to reach targeted version. See also http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki10 and other release notes. > Is professional help the only way to get our wiki upgraded to latest > version? (not feasible approach) > Please suggest if there are ways other than getting professional help. > If I may bring my own experience, I wouldn't say that it's not feasible - I did it - but I did it over several years (well 9 in fact), usually having 1 year behind each major version stabilization. Feasible, but really not easy, given the gap ! ;-) It could easily be quite time consuming ... Whatever you decide, backuping your current database is an absolute must-do before any move ! (and checking that you can restore this backup is almost as important) > > Thanks, > Kashyap. > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:00 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Kashyap, > > > > > > On 7 Nov 2014 at 11:16:41, Manjunath Kashyap ( > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > We are currently using the 0.9.840 version of Xwiki. We are planning to > > > upgrade the wiki to the latest version so as to include all the new > > > features provided by xwiki. > > > > That’s a nice challenge since 0.9.840 dates back to July 2005 (i.e. 9 > > years ago) ;) > > > > > I searched almost everywhere for a good resource for upgrading the > wiki, > > > but in vain. > > > > I don’t know what you searched but it’s very very simple to find an > > upgrade doc (either in google on or on xwiki.org). I just typed “xwiki > > upgrade” on google and got > > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade > > > > I’ve just added a new section in that doc for you since I believe you > > shouldn’t go through and upgrade in your case and instead go through > > import/export: > > > > > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HAlternative:ExportandReimport > > > > > Can someone guide me on this to accomplish this task? > > > This is a very significant step in expanding our business with the > xwiki > > > team. > > > > Also note that since it’s not an easy step you could ask for professional > > support from experts. There are some companies offering that listed here: > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > Thanks, > > > Kashyap. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
