I have a Confluence Data Center as personal website, and in the light of Data Center descend, I have (almost) choosen Xwiki as the new app for my data.
I have tested the Confluence Migrator Pro in trial and it is fine.
But, as a private person I have no money for the Migrator Pro, and it also have an annual cost after migration
So I need do do/write my own migrator - and am I quite confortable in Confluence API, but new to XWiki.
So - any skeleton migrators or simalar I can take advantage of, or anyone that has a free migration script?
The migrator pro is mainly relying on the free https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Confluence/XML/, which takes care of importing pretty much everything (including users and groups) except for most Confluence specific macros (those are imported as place-holders that you can then implement or convert, which is what the pro migrator does, for example).
AFAIK, the main things it adds are:
a more user-friendly interface with a few more advanced features (replay an import, etc.)
support for many macros which are specific to Confluence (and it can mean a lot, depending on your setup)
@moseisleydk Note that as one of the main contributors to both Confluence-XML and Confluence Migrator Pro, I’m a bit surprised to see Confluence Data Center used in a personal setting.
I have to warn you that, in a professional setting, you’ll probably waste time and money and end up with worse results by re-implementing Confluence Migrator Pro and not benefiting from the support it comes with. I would not advise following this path. We’ve been mastering this stuff for some time now, it takes time and trial and errors to get these things right efficiently.
Ive worked with Confluence for 15 years and have an Open Souce license as a private person, and its been a good experience. See https:///www.mos-eisley.dk
But the Data Center aera has come to an end - at least in 3,3 years ..
A fact is that most Wikis dont have any or good Confluence migrators, ive skimmed the lot (or someting) and some have an import of the Confluence HTML export. DocMost has it, but that is also a payable version - and DocMost is cool, but extensions, API and scripting etc is not in there so far.
A fact is my existing Data Center will die
A fact is I dont have the money for the Migrator Pro - and dont want to spend that level of money.
A fact is I dont want to start over…
This is not a professional setting, its private.
So - I intend to explore creating a migrator that does not import from XML, but page by page - I have some time to get there - and learch some more python on the way.
I could problably just copy’paste all my pages quicker, but where is the fun in that
I’m not the one who decides who gets a free license, I just wanted to make sure that you’re aware that this could be an option.
Also, in case you haven’t fully understood, the “paid” migrator is still open source, you can study, modify and re-distribute it under the terms of the LGPL 2.1 license as the rest of XWiki. It just contains some license checks.
A new “AtlassianHome” thing is created - its not really a page (The requested page could not be found.) - but it actually has a child - the Sub3 page
If I delete the Sub3 page, the “intermediate” page is gone also
Something is a little more wrong than that - the first page AtlassianHome is not acting like a UI created page, If I want to create a page below, its not possible via the UI…
I feel like you could be missing out a lot by not using Confluence-XML through our Filter Streams Converter extension, many many many hours went into our migrator code, but it’s nice to see other ways of doing things!
Hi @rjakse - I am sure it could be done better, but my needs are not that huge, and its a hobby project. I don also have some range of custom user macros etc.
