[opencms-dev] Upgrade from 6.2.3 to 9.0.1

[Christoph Kukulies]

Am 05.02.2015 um 18:58 schrieb Daniel Benden:
> Hi,
>
> we are trying to upgrade from Version 6.2.3 to 9.0.1.
>
> Up to now we tried to ways:
>
> 1.) Export Content and import in fresh install of 9.0.1.
> The success was not the best: html pages, previously als type xmlpages are now type plain an greyed out.


What the "greyed out" effect is concerned: goto 
WEB-INF/config/opencms-workplace.xml and search

    <!-- <explorertype name="xmlpage"

Remove the enclosing <!--  --> from the section for xmlpage.


>
> 2.) Upgrade from 6.2.3 to 9.0.1 with upgrade wizard - no success at all. DB Updates work, Step 3 of update gives Error 500…
>

Possibly doing a stepwise upgrade would work better. Also increasing 
Java VM heap and stack size may help. Not sure with this one though.


> Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Will it help to upgrade stepwise e.g. 6.2.3 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9.0.1 ?
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
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