Move Manila installation to OS-X machine

[Eric Soroos]

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 06:42  AM, Bob Raiselis wrote:

> Getting ready to move our Manila hosting from an OS-9 machine to a new
> OS-10 machine.
>
> I know about having to edit all of the Gems paths and the Gems 
> reference
> in config.mainresponder.domains, and the Gems configuration in the 
> Manila
> section of the Control Panel.
>
> What else am I in for? Where else do I need to look to make path 
> changes?

User.databases, config.mainresponder.domains, config.manila.sites, some 
manila plugin items in the manila site tables, members.root.  Some of 
these are addresses, so you need to do the change when you get to the 
new paths.

> I'd really like to simply recreate the old path on the new machine, 
> but I
> suspect I cannot create a folder called Desktop Folder at the root 
> level
> of the new OS-10 installation.

I'd bet you can, but you'd need to make sure that the hard drive names 
are the same.  You may have to play with permissions a bit, but it 
should be the easiest path.

> Another point, how much can I simply move over? If I use the OS-10
> Frontier application, will it be able to open all of the root files I
> have now (including frontier.root) or do some of those need to be
> different for the OS-10 install? Or will fixing all of the path
> references take care of it?

You can just drop in an os10 app into an os9 installation, assuming 
that the paths are correct. If you're fully up to date on the roots, 
You're going to be good. There may be some issues with getting the 
proper web browser app signature the first time, but that's not a fatal 
error.  (incidentally, if you get the paths right, you can do the same 
change from mac -> windows. I wouldn't trust it in production, but it 
can be done. )

eric