I developed a company wiki on a local server using version 17.1.0. Now that we’re ready to deploy I’ve set up a public VPS and went about installing xwiki on that server. First time around I installed 17.4.0 on the new server and when I did my export>import, there were missing navigation links, and the sidebars were not configured the same.
I thought maybe it had to do with the version difference so I razed the server and set up xwiki again using the same version I exported from.
Problem is that the import did the exact same thing again.
If anyone has any ideas why things are missing after my import I’d love to know.
Here’s my dev site:
Here’s the new site (sorry it’s so slow, need to upgrade the VPS):
I’m slowly rebuilding the new site to mimic the old one.
It would still be great to know why the export / import failed to be a perfect copy.
And the one thing I don’t seem to be able to figure out how to get done is putting the main page back in the navigation menu.
So it appears that the page got marked as ‘Hidden’ at some point. I didn’t think to check that at first since it was the main landing page. It shows up when you click the site logo or surf to the top level URL.
Anyhow, that’s now fixed and I think everything else I’ve gone in and manually recreated, but it’s definitely not as seamless a process as it should have been.
It’s hard to know what you exported and re-imported and what were the exact differences. What I can tell you is that:
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Export as XAR will not export everything, please read https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Backup#HUsingtheXWikiExportfeature
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You should only export your content pages and not the default XWiki Standard pages. See https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Administration%20Application#HExport . Otherwise you’re going to overwrite the default pages of XWiki by default pages from an older version of XWiki…
Thx