[Koha] Upgrade 3.01 to 3.6 on Diff Server

[Chris Cormack]

On 3 April 2012 11:12, Josh Mikow <joshmikow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris!
>
> I don't believe any customizations to the .pl files would have been done.
>  Is there a way to determine that?
>
> I have a database dump from 3.1.0 restored on the 3.6.4 box.  That's all
> I've done so far.  I also have a copy of all the files in all the folders,
> but I haven't done anything with them yet.
>
> The instance on the 3.1.0 is called "biblioteka".  I restored the database
> of the same name on the 3.6.4 server.
>
> I tried running a koha-upgrade-schema biblioteka but it returned an error
> like it can't find the "koha-conf.xml" file.  Should I restore the
> /etc/koha/ folder to /etc/koha/sites/biblioteka?  Is that what you referred
> to as an import?  I think on the old server it was installed as a single
> instance but on the new server I'd like to have a test instance available if
> we want to try things out first.
>
You will have to have done a koha-create biblioteka on the new one

then you can do

koha-mysql biblioteka < name_of_your_dump.sql

Then run the other commands

Chris

> Thanks again for the help!
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 April 2012 08:52, Josh Mikow <joshmikow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>>
>> >
>> > My biggest questions are:
>> > 1. What is the best way to make sure I backup all of the necessary files
>> > on
>> > the 3.01 system so that I can successfully get them over to the 3.06
>> > system
>> > to restore?
>>
>> Unless you have done some local customisation by editing the perl
>> scripts or templates. All you need is the database itself. So a
>> database dump of that.
>>
>> > 2. What is the best way to properly restore the 3.01 files under the
>> > 3.06
>> > install without causing future problems?
>>
>> You don't want to do that :) You will cause problems. What you want to
>> do is import your 3.1.x database into your 3.6.4 instance, then run
>> koha-upgrade-schema <instancename>
>> then
>> koha-uprade-to-3.4 <instancename>
>>
>> What this second one does is remove the item data from the marcxml
>> blob in biblioitems. This was changed in 3.4.0 hence the name, since
>> you are going from 3.1.x to 3.6.4 you need this to be done. It will
>> then start a zebra reindex. After that you will be up on 3.6.4 .. the
>> next thing to do would be to work through all the settings and check
>> they are ok (circulation rules, systempreferences etc). Get the
>> librarians to test.
>>
>> If its all ok, do this again and call it live :)
>>
>> > 3. What steps do I need to do to upgrade the 3.01 to the 3.06 system?
>>
>> See above :)
>>
>> > 4. Currently the system is working on localhost but we will need to get
>> > it
>> > working on our internet site.  What configuration changes are needed to
>> > work both internally and externally?
>> >
>> You will need to play with the apache config file in sites-enabled to
>> get the virtual host listening on the names/numbers you want it too.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Chris
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