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by Joel Aufrecht
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manual intervention should be required. If you are running
OpenACS prior to 4.5, upgrading will require manual effort.
The required platform for OpenACS 4.6 is the same as 4.5, with the excepion of OpenFTS. You now need OpenFTS 0.3.2, not 0.2. - OpenACS 4.6 does not support PostGreSQL 7.3.
A computer with OpenACS 4.5.
Required for Full Text Search on PostGreSQL: OpenFTS 0.3.2
OpenACS consists of files and a database schema. The files + OpenACS 4.6 does not support PostGreSQL 7.3.
A computer with OpenACS 4.5.
Required for Full Text Search on PostGreSQL: OpenFTS 0.3.2
OpenACS consists of files and a database schema. The files in the OpenACS 4.6 tarball include database upgrade scripts. To start the upgrade, replace your existing files with the new files and then restart the server. Then, browse to the APM, which will detect the new packages and offer to run the appropriate database upgrade scripts. After restarting the server again, the upgrade is - complete.
Make a Backup.�Back up the database and file system (see Section�, “Snapshot backup and recovery”).
OPTIONAL: Upgrade OpenFTS.�OpenACS Full Text Search requires several pieces: the OpenFTS code, some database functions, and the OpenFTS Engine. If you have OpenFTS 0.2, you'll need to upgrade to to OpenFTS 0.3.2. This is backwards-compatible - + complete.
Make a Backup.�Back up the database and file system (see Section�, “Snapshot backup and recovery”).
OPTIONAL: Upgrade OpenFTS.�OpenACS Full Text Search requires several pieces: the OpenFTS code, some database functions, and the OpenFTS Engine. If you have OpenFTS 0.2, you'll need to upgrade to to OpenFTS 0.3.2. This is backwards-compatible - completing this step will not break a working OpenFTS Engine from 4.5.
Uninstall the old OpenFTS Engine
Browse to http://yourserver/openfts.
Click Administration.
Click Drop OpenFTS Engine
Build and install the new OpenFTS driver and supporting tcl procedures. (This section of shell code is not fully documented; please exercise care.)
cd /usr/local/src/
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itself, and then come back and upgrade the rest of the
desired packages in a second pass.On the next screen, click Install Packages
When prompted, restart the server:
[root@localhost root]# restart-aolserver openacs-devWait a minute, then browse to the package manager, http://yourserver/acs-admin/apm.
Check that the kernel upgrade worked by clicking All and making sure that acs-kernel version is 5.0.0a1.
OPTIONAL: Install the new OpenFTS Engine.�If you want to upgrade the OpenFTS Engine, do these steps. (You must have already upgraded the OpenFTS driver to - 0.3.2.)
Browse to http://yourserver/admin/site-map
On the openfts line, click on set parameters.
Change the value of openfts_tcl_src_path from /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.2/ to /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/
Click Set Parameters
[root@localhost root]# restart-aolserver openacs-devBrowse to http://yourserver/openfts
Click Administration.
Click Initialize OpenFTS Engine
Rollback.�If anything goes wrong, roll back to the backup snapshot.
Browse to http://yourserver/admin/site-map
On the openfts line, click on set parameters.
Change the value of openfts_tcl_src_path from /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.2/ to /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/
Click Set Parameters
[root@localhost root]# restart-aolserver openacs-devBrowse to http://yourserver/openfts
Click Administration.
Click Initialize OpenFTS Engine
Rollback.�If anything goes wrong, roll back to the backup snapshot.