FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: Moving an entire namespace?

[Ben Coburn <btcoburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Daniel Mitchell wrote:

>  What's the best way to do this? I know there's the "move" plugin, but
> that's only for a page at a time.
>
>  My current plan is, for the top-level 'thing' namespace, to just do 
> 'mv
> thing projects/thing' in the data directory -- I know this will break
> absolute links within that namespace, and links from other namespaces
> will break, but we can always patch that up later on.
>
>  What I'm mostly concerned about is not breaking the wiki itself --
> currently, I know I'll have to move:
>
>  data/pages/thing to data/pages/projects/thing
>  data/media/thing to data/media/projects/thing
>  data/attic/thing to data/attic/projects/thing
>
>  What about data/metadata? If I move that, will it just cause more
> trouble than it's worth? I also suspect the search index will be broken
> for those pages until I reindex or manually visit them; that's fine, I
> can do that if necessary. What about the cache?
>
>  Also, I suppose I should really check in data/locks to make sure I
> don't kill anyone's existing edit, but I can probably just do things 
> out
> of work hours to avoid that.
>
>  What about changes.log? And as I'm still running the last release of
> dokuwiki, would it be better to do these moves _then_ upgrade, or do 
> the
> upgrade and then move things around before the new version gets started
> with the new metadata/etc? Maybe install a fresh new version and just
> copy pages/media/attic over? I'm looking at moving a couple of thousand
> pages over a dozen or so namespaces, so I don't want to have anything 
> go
> wrong here..
Upgrade then move stuff. That will split the changelog into *.changes 
files in the data/meta/ directory. Just remember to also move:
data/meta/thing to data/meta/projects/thing

I don't know if there is anything path specific in the *.meta files. If 
you are concerned about it, just delete the *.meta files under 
data/meta/projects/thing after the move. The meta files will be 
regenerated with the correct info.
Obviously, remember to back up the whole data directory before moving 
things. The will make it *easyer* to retry or recover from your changes 
as needed!
You may also notice that the "recent changes" point to the old files. 
It should be possible to replace "thing" with "projects:thing" (no 
quotes) in the data/meta/_dokuwiki.changes file.
Regards, Ben Coburn


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