Børge Kjeldstad wrote:

Hei,

We are now running this Zope version behind Apache 2.0: Zope Version (Zope 2.6.2 (binary release, python 2.1, linux2-x86), python 2.1.3, linux2) Python Version 2.1.3 (#1, Sep 19 2002, 13:15:46) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] System Platform linux2

Our Zope was installed using this file: Zope-2.6.2-linux2-x86.tgz

Further we have Plone 2.0-RC3 installed. And then not much else.

Now we would like upgrade to Zope 2.7.0 final and Plone 2.0-final.

As we have never upgraded a Zope on a linux before, I thought I should ask some questions before we go ahead..

1. The Zope-2.7.0\doc\INSTALL.TXT describes installing Zope from source. If I follow this description, what will then happen to the Zope 2.6.2 that I am allready running?

they can happily coexist one next to the other. I did that on a couple of machines as follows: - dowloaded python 2.3.3 and installed it - created a new user zope27 (mandatory but usefull) - created a directory /home/zope27/instances - created ~/Products unpacked CMFPlone-2.0-final to this directory created a softlink CMFPlone-2 pointing to CMFPlone-2.0-final - dowloaded Zope and unpacked it to /home/zope27/Zope-2.7-0-src - installed zope to reside in /home/zope27/Zope-2.7-0 with configure --prefix=~/Zope-2.7-0 - created instances of zope with ~/Zope-2.7-0/bin/mkzopeinstance in the ~/instances - edited ~/instances/INSTANCEX/etc/zope.conf to my liking (at least port-base so it does not run at the same port as the 2.6.2 version) - copied OLDZOPE/var/Data.fs do ~/instances/INSTANCEX/var - made softlinks in ~/instances/INSTANCEX/Products pointing to all directories in ~/Products/CMFPlone-2 - started the new zope with ~/instances/INSTANCEX/bin/zctrl start HTH robert

2. Should I do something with my Zope 2.6.2 before starting installing Zope 2.7.0?

3. After following the above installation guide. Can I then just take the data.fs file from Zope 2.6.2 and put it into the \Zope-Instance\var\ directory of my new Zope-2.7.0, restart Zope, and then be happy running the "old" web applications again?

4. Or can I/should I just export my Zope 2.6.2 web applications and then import them into Zope-2.7.0?

Cheers and Thank you very much! I am very eager to try out the new Zope : )

Børge

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