migrate a old PyLucid v0.8 installation to v0.9

↑ migrate v0.8 data  #

You can migrate a old v0.8 installation.

Quick overview:

• install v0.9
• import old v0.8 SQL data (if needed)
• run syncdb (new v0.9 tables would be created
• run migration (data from old v0.8 tables would be migrate into v0.9 tables)

Before you start:

• check the site domain information (Should be equal to the old site domain)
• check the existing languages

For migration login and go into the "Django admin site"

• request e.g.: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
• After login go to: "PyLucid admin menu" / "PyLucid" / "update section"

and run every 'migration step' menu point.

↑ migrate multiple v0.8 sites  #

v0.9 used the site framework. So you can migrate multiple v0.8 sites into one v0.9 installation. Here a quick overview:

• Backup all existing SQL Data!
• create a fresh database or delete all existing tables
• insert SQL Dump of the first v0.8 site
• run syncdb (creates all new, missing tables)
• run migration e.g.: http://site_1.tld/admin/update/

to insert other sites, do this:

• create a site entry in the django admin panel
• create a SQL Dump only from the pylucid* tables, with DROP TABLE
• insert the SQL Dump into the v0.8 database
• run the update routine from this site e.g.: http://site_2.tld/admin/update/You can repeat this for all sites.

↑ limitations of multisite migration  #

• There exist no nice way, to migrate user data.
• user meta data like createby, lastupdateby can be wrong, after migration

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