SID-00958: Twiki 5.0 on VM

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryAuthentication	Server OS:	VM	Last update:	1 year ago

Hello! I have installed the VM version of twiki and I used the tutorial to upgrade to 4.3.1 (awesome). So I was curious and wanted to upgrade to the new 5.0. Well, once I replaced the files the site works, but I can't login! When I enter my information it takes me back to my homepage and I'm not logged in. I tried to replace .htaccess and other password files with my previous version and it still doesn't work. Just wondering if anyone (possibly developers) would understand what my problem was?

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-30

Discussion and Answer

Did you do a clean upgrade? E.g. replace the whole twiki directory with the 5.0 tarball content? I recommend to remove the twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg file and redo the configuration using the configure script.

If you have existing content you can copy over the twiki/data and twiki/pub from the old TWiki. Watch out, do not copy over the twiki/data/TWiki, twiki/pub/TWiki, twiki/data/Main and twiki/pub/Main. If you have regsters users and groups in the Main web you can copy those over selectively. Make sure you copy over the twiki/data/.htpasswd file.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-13

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-11-08

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