Upgrade xwiki 10.3 to 11.10.10

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#1

Hi,

I updated my xwiki version from 10.3 to 11.10.10, after upgrade in the xwiki footer show again the old xwiki version … why??

Also there are exceptions in the catalina logs, I attach the exceptions … someone can help me ?

err_xwiki_catalina.txt (781.5 KB)

Tomcat – apache-tomcat-9.0.4
DB – HSQLDB

Thanks
Andrea.

#2

Hi, can you list the exact steps you’ve followed to do the upgrade?

Thx

#3

1 - i stopped tomcat 9
2 - i downloaded the war from https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Download/
3 - I unzipped the war and customized the following files in the expanded directory

web.xml

  <env-entry>
    <env-entry-name>XWikiConfig</env-entry-name>
    <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
    <env-entry-value>/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg</env-entry-value>
  </env-entry>

hibernate.cfg.xml

<property name="connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:file:${environment.permanentDirectory}/database/xwiki_db;shutdown=true</property>
<property name="connection.username">sa</property>
<property name="connection.password"></property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>

<property name="hibernate.connection.charSet">UTF-8</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.useUnicode">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.characterEncoding">utf8</property>

<mapping resource="xwiki.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="feeds.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="instance.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="notification-filter-preferences.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="mailsender.hbm.xml"/>

4 - I put the db drivers (hsqldb.jar) in the directory /u02/apache-tomcat-9.0.4/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib

[root@xxxxs lib]# ls -la hsql*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat tomcat 1543134 May 16  2018 hsqldb.jar
[root@xxxx lib]# pwd
/u02/apache-tomcat-9.0.4/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib

5 - I restarted the tomcat and followed the distribution wizard procedure.

#4

Where? I hope it wasn’t over the previous version :slight_smile: The fact that you’re displaying the old version seems to indicate that could be the cause.

See https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Upgrade#HMethod1.CUpgradingthewebapp.WAR

#5

Yes, I read it.
I removed the old directory and the old war in the webapps tomcat folder then i put in the new directory with my customizations.

i rollback and repeated the procedure two times with the same results.

#6

ok. But it’s not possible that xwiki will display the old version if the webapp you started is the new one :slight_smile:

#7

Unless you manually configured the footer in the XWiki Admin UI and put a hardcoded value there :slight_smile:

#8

No I have not done any of this, also browsing and trying to perform some operations there are exceptions

Examples

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before the upgrade this functions worked.

#9

in add:
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#10

I solved it by reinstalling a clean version of 10.3 and importing the contents from the production version.

later I updated to 12.9.

A problem presist on the skin, every time i restart tomcat the following file is loaded into the tomcat work:

work/Catalina/localhost/xwiki/xwiki-temp/cache/lesscss.skinfiles.cache.dat

This seems to load some css that are not the ones I chose from the xwiki settings, if i go to the wiki settings i’ll see the correct skin

I have already tried to clear the browser cache and the xwiki cache from the settings but the problem persist.

Any suggestions ?

err-skin err-skin-2