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Support for upgrades.

+Support for upgrades.

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Support for upgrades.

by Joel Aufrecht
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff. @@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ manual intervention should be required. If you are running OpenACS prior to 4.5, upgrading will require manual effort.

Checklist

The required platform for OpenACS 4.6 is the same as 4.5, with the excepion of OpenFTS. You now need OpenFTS 0.3.2, not 0.2. - OpenACS 4.6 does not support PostGreSQL 7.3.

Overview

OpenACS consists of files and a database schema. The files + OpenACS 4.6 does not support PostGreSQL 7.3.

Overview

OpenACS consists of files and a database schema. The files in the OpenACS 4.6 tarball include database upgrade scripts. To start the upgrade, replace your existing files with the new files and then restart the server. Then, browse to the APM, which will detect the new packages and offer to run the appropriate database upgrade scripts. After restarting the server again, the upgrade is - complete.

Figure�5.1.�Assumptions in this section

name of OpenACS usernsadmin
OpenACS server nameopenacs-dev
Root of OpenACS file tree/web/openacs-dev
Database backup directory/backup/openacs/

Upgrading on Linux/Unix

  1. Make a Backup.�Back up the database and file system (see Section�, “Snapshot backup and recovery”).

  2. OPTIONAL: Upgrade OpenFTS.�OpenACS Full Text Search requires several pieces: the OpenFTS code, some database functions, and the OpenFTS Engine. If you have OpenFTS 0.2, you'll need to upgrade to to OpenFTS 0.3.2. This is backwards-compatible - + complete.

    Figure�5.1.�Assumptions in this section

    name of OpenACS usernsadmin
    OpenACS server nameopenacs-dev
    Root of OpenACS file tree/web/openacs-dev
    Database backup directory/backup/openacs/

Upgrading on Linux/Unix

  1. Make a Backup.�Back up the database and file system (see the section called “Snapshot backup and recovery”).

  2. OPTIONAL: Upgrade OpenFTS.�OpenACS Full Text Search requires several pieces: the OpenFTS code, some database functions, and the OpenFTS Engine. If you have OpenFTS 0.2, you'll need to upgrade to to OpenFTS 0.3.2. This is backwards-compatible - completing this step will not break a working OpenFTS Engine from 4.5.

    1. Uninstall the old OpenFTS Engine

      1. Browse to http://yourserver/openfts.

      2. Click Administration.

      3. Click Drop OpenFTS Engine

    2. Build and install the new OpenFTS driver and supporting tcl procedures. (This section of shell code is not fully documented; please exercise care.)

      cd /usr/local/src/