Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Migration Script for Old Configurations

[Reini U. <rei...@gm...>]

Thanks, appreciated.
I'll add it to CVS asap.

On 10/21/05, Matt Brown <ma...@ma...> wrote:
> As part of my work packaging PHPwiki for Debian I had to write a script
> to migrate old index.php based configurations to the new config.ini
> file.
>
> The script works reasonably well and handles most of the configuration
> variables. The major omission is that it doesn't attempt to migrate
> external authentication configuration at all (stuff like DB query
> strings etc).
>
> It's written in perl (sorry) and takes a single command line argument
> which is the path to a template file to use as the basis for the new
> config.ini. Your old configuration should be fed to stdin and you'll get
> the new configuration on stdout.
>
> The script can be found at
> http://www.mattb.net.nz/patches/phpwiki/migrate-phpwiki-config
>
> An example template configuration file is at
> http://www.mattb.net.nz/patches/phpwiki/config-template.ini
>
> There might be a little bit of Debian specific stuff there, but it
> should be fairly general.
>
> Run the script without arguments for more detailed usage information.
>
> Not sure if anyone is still using old wikis or if you've all upgraded by
> now, but maybe this will be of use to someone.
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Reini Urban
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