Question

A friend is giving up his life as a TWiki Administrator after being hacked recently via the SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev vulnerability.

I've offered to host a few of his webs that are still in use from my TWikiSite.

Before the hack, his site was running TWikiRelease01Feb2003. Mine is now running TWikiRelease04Sep2004.

Having performed the UpgradeTWiki a couple of times already, I know from past experience that some interesting things are done during the upgrade. It's been a while, but off the top of my head I recall some new TWikiVariables being introduced and some new functionality such as WebLeftBar, PatternSkin, etc.

Apart from copying over the ../data and ../pub dirs, what are the additional recomended steps for moving webs from one TWikiSite running BeijingRelease to another site running CairoRelease ?

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Please don't say that I should UpgradeTWiki on the old box, just in order to move the webs off and turn it down

-- KeithHelfrich - 29 Sep 2005

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-- KeithHelfrich - 29 Sep 2005

Answer

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You can safely just copy the data/Web and pub/Web directories. Cairo rendering is compatible with Beijing (but we need to work on Dakar to assure the same)

The only thing that is needed is to copy some additional topics as described in TWikiUpgradeGuide, Manual Upgrade Procedure, Adapt the other webs. Namely, add topics WebLeftBar and WebSearchAdvanced.

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Sep 2005