Question
We moved our old TWiki installation (4.1.2) to a new server with a newer TWiki installation (4.2.0) following the
Upgrade Guide.
All of our attachments are missing.
If you open a topic, which formerly had attachments, nothing is there.
Not even the attachment table.
We checked if the files reached the new server destination (they are there), we checked the file permissions on the new webserver for the files (they have been changed accordingly).
Any suggestions how to solve this?
The
old server environment is the following:
Old TWiki version: |
TWiki-4.1.2 |
Old TWiki plugins: |
SpreadSheetPlugin, CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, InterwikiPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, TablePlugin, TwistyPlugin, WysiwygPlugin |
Old Server OS: |
SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 |
Old Web server: |
Server version: Apache/2.0.55 , Server built: Aug 9 2006 09:22:52 |
Old Perl version: |
perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int , 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 |
Old Client OS: |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
Old Web Browser: |
Firefor 2.0.0.14, IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158 |
Environment
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BrittaEngelke - 20 May 2008
Answer
If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.
When you say the files are at the new server destination, is the path correct?
\TWiki\pub\<WEB>\<TOPIC>\
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SeanCMorgan - 20 May 2008
The attachments are listed, if you click on the "Attach" button.
I just checked that. You are right.
It is nevertheless totally misleading, not to see the attachment table anymore.
I tried to change the properties of the attachments to show links to the attachments instead of the table.
That leads to the following error:
"Error saving topic
During save of
TestDokumentationArchivierungAggregationFA an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator."
usr/bin/ci -m%COMMENT|U% -t-none -w%USERNAME|S% -u %FILENAME|F% of .../Main/TestDokumentationArchivierungAggregationFA.txt failed: 123
Seems as if the
RCS has something to do with that. I found
RcsErrorOnAttachmentSave in the
RCS support section.
Any other ideas?
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BrittaEngelke - 28 May 2008
I just noticed that you've changed operating system with this migration. That may be why your check in operation is failing, because the new RCS can't deal with the old system's file format. The RCS version may have changed or is otherwise incompatible (use the command
"rcs -V"
on each system if you want to check).
If you don't need to retain the RCS history from the old system, then on the new system you could simply delete the accompanying version file of a document
(exampledoc.txt,v)
and then try it again.
If you need to retain the attachment revision history across the migration, you would need to look into the documentation for the respective RCS systems to see if that is possible.
P.S. it is probably not related, but if you are still having trouble with the attachment table, I have figured out what my problem with that was:
Support.AttachmentTableGone.
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SeanCMorgan - 28 May 2008
Closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if needed.
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PeterThoeny - 02 Aug 2008