[opencms-dev] Upgrading to 7.5 with a setup which removes the /opencms/opencms/ part of the URLs?

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

Hi Manfred,

I'm running Opencms as a Tomcat ROOT app (with stripped off
opencms-prefix) but I'm not using mod-jk but VirtualHosts and different
connectors in server.xml.

I migrated from 7.0.5 to 7.5 during a coffeebreak on the OpenCms.Days in
Cologne on Tuesday :-)

Make a backup copy of your database and your WEB-APP tree at any rate,
first.

Follow the steps in the readme.txt of opencms_upgrade_to_5.5.0.zip

Start the upgrade-Wizard now without the prefix:

http://localhost/update

Enter the correct Admin password (the one that you chose). I did the
mistake to leave the fields as they were preset by the wizard and the
installation failed because it could not connect to the workplace.

When you decide to comment out 
# Rebuild search indexes
rebuildAllIndexes

then the installation script throws an exception at the end. No problem,
only looks a bit ugly. That should be intercepted by the installation
script smoothly, I think, but is not a big issue.

Good luck,


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:30:05PM +0200, manfred.schenk at zerobyte.de wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade me current version of opencms to the newest release.
> 
> But my installation is not a standard installion - it used URL-Rewriting and mod-jk to remove the /opencms/opencms/ part of the URI.
> 
> Can I expect the upgrade-wizard to work also in my case?
> 
> Where should I look at before doing the upgrade to reduce the possibility of errors?
> 
> Regards,
> Manfred