[Xerte] Re: Upgrading XOT to 1.7 versus a clean install

[Pat Lockley]

...lost track of how often i've answered this....

There are 3 databases changes. 1 of which doesn't do anything (by
default it's turned off in the code), the second one (LDAP table) you
can run without (it is only really useful if you use multiple ldap
hosts - which was supported before, but not quite as nicely), and one
table has an index on one column to make the database queries quicker
- again - it'll make your database faster, but it doesn't make a
difference to it technically working or not.

So there is no upgrade path, as you don't need one. I deliberately
barely ever changed the database as I didn't want to have to write
upgrade scripts for people.

So, two options

1) Download 1.7 and run a diff over the two folders. Back up your old
site, then copy all of the changed 1.7 files over.
2) Install 1.7 then write some PHP (or just use mysql, if your SQL is
good enough) to copy all of the content from the old database tables
over into the new database tables (basically a select statement tied
to an insert statement).

I would do one first, and if you need to do 2.

1 should take about 10-20 minutes.
2 would take more like an hour, maybe less

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> You can:
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> Keep the folders from the old install
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> Make new learning objects in the new install,
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> Copy the data.xml and media folders from the old LOs over the top of the new
> LOs you just created
>
> Update the URLs in moodle.
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>
>
> 60 isn’t too many, but enough for an hour’s work or so. If you’ve got the
> two ftp windows open, it’s not so bad. I do this quite a bit when I want to
> move stuff from one owner to another.
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>
> Pat might have some better automagic way.
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> There aren’t any database changes planned, so in the future it should be an
> ‘over the top’ update.
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> A lot of the issues Dave Goodwin noted were fixed.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Prior
> Sent: 06 February 2012 10:15
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrading XOT to 1.7 versus a clean install
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> A quick update on where we are at with our install at Bath. Our developer
> has said (citing http://www.palepurple.co.uk/blog-xerte-online-toolkits)
> there is no clear or simple upgrade path from our existing install (I think
> v 1.5) to 1.7 and if there is he is currently doesn't have the time to
> familiarise himself with what is needed due to other commitments (we are
> upgrading to Moodle 2 this summer).
>
> He has, however, agreed to do a clean install of 1.7 from the SVN. My
> question is what would we need to do for this to work - we currently have
> upwards of 60 Xerte learning objects created using our current install,
> which are embedded into various Moodle courses. Presumably we would need to
> save these (how?) and then re-upload them into the new 1.7 install and then
> update all the URLs in Moodle?
>
> cheers
>
> Julian
>
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> University of Bath
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