[opencms-dev] Installing OpenCMS and migrating data/settings fromanother (older) installation

[Schliemann, Kai]

Hi Jane,

if you have used a MySQL-Database on your old server it is very easy.

First of all, get rid of the opencms.war and the opencms directory on your new servers webapp directory (CATALINA_HOME/webapps/)

1.       Copy the opencms webapp (ROOT) from your old tomcat directory to the new servers tomcat webapp directory (CATALINA_HOME/webapps/). If there already is a ROOT-webapp, rename that one or move to a backup directory.

2.       Copy the opencms database from your old database directory to the new servers database directory. (The safer way would be to do this via mysqldump) 

3.       Change the db connection in the opencms.properties file. It is located in the WEB-INF/config directory of your opencms webapp.

4.       Change the server connection in the opencms-system.xml as well.

5.       Restart Tomcat.

6.       Login to OpenCms and clear the flex cache and do a static export.

After doing that, you will have a 1:1 copy of your old installation.

 

HTH

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Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Stefanie Juliane Schmidt
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 13:51
An: opencms-dev at opencms.org.
Betreff: [opencms-dev] Installing OpenCMS and migrating data/settings fromanother (older) installation

 

Hello!

 

I have some problems in setting up OpenCms, and I hope someone on this list could help me.

 

For my system: I use Debian and already installed Java and Tomcat, but I'm still a newbie on Linux.

 

How can I migrate OpenCms to another server (where testings shall take place)? I would like to set up everything on that new server exactly as on the old one.

As it says on http://www.opencms.org/en/development/installation/server.html#a4 I placed the opencms.war in the folder CATALINA_HOME/webapps/. Restarting of Tomcat5.5 created a directory /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/opencms/, which now contains the directories META-INF, setup and WEB-INF.

On the old server these and the directories resources and export are contained in /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/ROOT/.

Also $CATALINA_HOME is the path /usr/share/tomcat5.5 with me (I used the script in http://www.installationwiki.org/OpenCms#Linux_Configuration, and those *.sh's are all in that directory).

That's not how it's supposed to be, is it? How can I fix this?

And how should I import all the settings from the other (older) server?

 

Another problem is: I checked http://www.installationwiki.org/OpenCms#Check_Your_Configuration: When I try to access localhost:8080, I get the message "Failed to Connect", whereas localhost:80 works fine (I get a webpage, saying "It works!). How can I adjust the firewall settings - assuming it is a firewall problem?

 

Also how do you read the documentation in http://www.opencms.org/en/modules/downloads/dl_dochow_httpd_7.0.0.html.

As I downloaded it, I got a manifest.xml-file and some cryptic html-files, which I don't know how to read.

 

Thank you very much for your help!

Jane

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