Does anyone have suggestions for how I might ease the pain of migrating my current wiki from UseModWiki to TWiki?

UseMod stores pages in *.db files.

• TWiki version: Latest (as of 01 Feb 2001)
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Linux

-- RichHolladay - 01 Feb 2001

Here's an answer, one year later! Thanks to LesOrchard

• UseModWikiToTWikiAddOn

-- RichHolladay - 08 Feb 2002

Not Really an Answer

As I see that this topic has been open forever....

The best suggestion I have, given that I have never used UseMod, is:

Write a little (yes, little, I'm not being sarcastic here) Perl script to do the work, I assume that the way the data is stored is: topic name is the key to the topic, the topic itself is the content of the hash.

So, under these assumptions, what the script should do is:

1. open the database file
2. retrieve all the keys (ie. topics)
3. create a file for the topic
4. save the content in the file, and close it
5. optionally do a ci (rcs check in) on the topic, with the desired user.

As a further pointer, your script should probably look sorta like this:

use DB_File;
tie %THEDBFILE , 'DB_File' , 'your_db_file_name' , O_RD , 0666 || die ("can't open file");
foreach $file (keys(%THEDBFILE)) {
   create_the_file_here;
   save_to_the_file_this $THEDBFILE{$file);
   close_the_file_here;
}

Hope this helps (and if it does, could you attach it here for averyone else to use??).

-- EdgarBrown - 11 Apr 2001

Check out the Plugins.DolphinToTWikiAddOn, you might find it useful to use it as a base for your converter code. DolphinWiki is file based, so you need to replace the file read part with a DB access (use DB_File or DBI)

-- PeterThoeny - 11 May 2001