Howto upgrade ]project-open[ 3.1 to vmware 3.2 version

We have a self compiled version of ]project-open[ version 3.1 running on our intranet server. Because there is no more support for this version and there is also no more any documentation about this version out there we have decided to switch to the ]project-open[ vmware 3.2 version. There are some steps required to get all data from 3.1 into the 3.2 installation.

First of all: Make a backup of your database!

1. Login as admin into your 3.1 web interface and make a postges backup http://[YOUR_SERVER]/intranet/admin/backup/
2. The backup data is now on your 3.1 machine under /web/projop/filesystemstorage/backup/[YOUR_BACKUP_FILE].sql .
3. Download the ]project-open[ vmware image from sourceforge. Because we use virtualbox instead of vmware we mount the vmware image into our virtualbox.
4. In virtualbox you have to select SCSI:1 as your harddisk interface because the vmware installation tries to mount /dev/sda1 as your root.
5. after success start of the virtualbox you have to login as root (default password is root)
6. Now you have to switch your runlevel to S (single user mode) with init S.
7. In this runlevel you have to restart postgres with /etc/init.d/postgesql restart.
8. Switch now from root to postgres with su - postgres.
9. Connect to the postgresql master database template1 with psql template1
10. Drop the projop database drop database projop;
11. Now you can leave the postgresql shell with \q
12. Create a new projop database createdb projop --owner projop
13. Set postgres dialect for the database createlang plpqsql projop
14. Import the tsearch2 tablees psql projop -f /web/projop/packages/intranet-search-pg/postgresql/tsearch2.sql
15. Import your backup from the 3.1 system (copy the data from your 3.1 machine first) psql projop -f /web/projop/filesystemstorage/backup/[YOUR_BACKUP_FILE].sql
16. Run the post patch psql projop -f /web/projop/preconf/poall.post-patch.sql
17. Switch back to root exit
18. Switch back to the runlevel 5 init 5
19. Restart the postgresql system /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
20. In you web browser you should now be able to login as administator (username and password from your old 3.1 system!)
21. Update all enabled packages http://[YOUR_SERVER]/acs-admin/apm/packages-install?update_only_p=1
22. Select on the page all packages which should be upgraded and start the update procedure (this may take any time)
23. Restart the projop web server with http://[YOUR_SERVER]/acs-admin/server-restart

I hope thats all and your system is now running with ]project-open[ 3.2.

updating mediawiki is easy

I have updated some homepages to the brand new mediawiki version 1.13.2 which was very easy. They have a very good description what you have to do, if you update to a new version and a very nice update script which works also for very old wiki versions (I have tested this with the 1.4.5 version).

But there ara small problems with own skin (for example on http://www.buzztard.org). The skin have to be fixed per hand. Hopfully ensonic can do this the next days.