Admin Panel empty after Enterprise 7.2 to 8.4.6 Upgrade

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OS: Mac 10.10 using default install w/ jetty

Trying to fix the issue with my Enterprise 8.4.6 (the wiki would crash every few hours or over night) by upgrading to Enterprise 8.4.6.jar file.

I launched the installer, installed in a different directory. Then replaced the following files with the old data: placed the .cfg, .properties, hibernate and the data folder over, started the shell, it launches with my old data intact. Everything looks functional except the admin panel is now empty. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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Do you still have the problem?

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No. I just reverted back to 7.2.
Perhaps I just did the update wrong? Just unpacked the WAR and replace the files with the new on mac osx server

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What files?

The right way is described here:

Be very careful to never copy the new WAR over the old one as indicated in the doc.

Now you didn’t mention if you executed the Distribution Wizard since that’s the important part for upgrading wiki pages. See https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingwikidocuments

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Thanks for your help, vmassol. Appreciate it.

The Distribution Wizard never came up when I merged over the new install files. It simply just started the instance like normal when I logged in as Admin.

My steps were: (Using jetty/hsql)
Unpack .war file

  1. Open Terminal
  2. cd Downloads
  3. jar -xvf xwiki-9.11.5.war
    Replace static files
  4. Applications/Xwiki Enterprise 7.2/webapps/xwiki/*
    Copy over old configurations from 7.2 directory:
  5. xwiki.cfg
  6. xwiki.properties
  7. web.xml
    Start xwiki.sh

It seems that my mistake is not using the new configuration files to trigger the Distribution Wizard?

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What WDYM by static files?

Anyway the upgrade process is simple, see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HUpgradingthewebapp

I cannot describe it better. If you follow it you’ll see the Distribution Wizard (DW)

If you don’t see the DW it’s because you’ve changed the permanent directory for example.

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No, you can use your old config files (ideally best is to merge them), but in any case that has no impact on the DW.

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Thank you. I’ll re-attempt the upgrade.