[Pmwiki-users] migrating PmWiki 1.x pages to 2.0, first attempts

[Benjamin Fay]

Hi
I followed the guidelines in
http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php/PmWiki/UpgradingFromPmWiki1
Worked perfect for me.

Thank you!

benjamin

Am Sonntag, 26. September 2004 15.37 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:32:19AM -0400, Kass Lloyd wrote:
> > Well asside from theme changes and other stuff of that nature the data
> > files could be dynamicly upgraded. You can automaticly save a copy of
> > the old data file when you upgrade it. just rename it and put a
> > ".$version" on the end.. Then if everything goes horablely wrong the
> > files are still there.
>
> Well, this is really what the conversion script does, although I'm
> providing (and recommending) the option of safely using existing pages
> within a separate wiki installation for testing purposes.
>
> If you really want to upgrade over an existing installation, you just
> rename the existing wiki.d/ directory to another name, then point the
> conversion script module at that directory, and this has almost exactly
> the same outcome as the "automatically save a copy and rename" suggestion
> above.  (Except, of course, if you want to revert back to 1.x you don't
> have to rename the ".$version" files back to the original. :-)
>
> > Backwards compatablity for data files I think is somewhat imporant...
>
> The files themselves are completely backwards compatible; the
> markup is backwards compatible through the conversion script.
>
> Pm