Re: How to export a jahia site on a new machine.

I tried entering this info to sync my local machine with another machine.
However, after clicking add, when I click save, it just gets removed from
the list. Why does that happen?

On 9/6/06, Stéphane Croisier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  At 13:04 06.09.2006, you wrote:
>
> Stephane,
> I have exported the virtual site using the administration menu. How to
> import it to the new machine now? Virtual sites management menu does seem to
> have any import button.
>
>
> When you create a new virtual site, within the virtual site configuration
> wizard, when you reached the page where you need to choose your set of
> template, you can here choose to import an existing import file (please use
> the same set of templates or 100% compliant templates).
>
>
> Secondly, can you tell me some document which contains information about
> "Manage Distant Site for Auto Export". I am not able to make it to work.
> I'll export the portlets after I am able to export the content.
>
>
> You just need to fulfill the information of the form aka: the full name of
> your remote virtual site (it could be another virtual site on the same
> server too = http://localhost:8080/jahia/Jahia/site/name_of_my_new_site )
>
> Then you need to enter the name of the user on the distant server that
> will make the import (usually root) and the name of the user on the local
> server who will make the export (could be root if you want to make a full
> site export, but could also be guest if you only want to export content
> available for the anonymous users but not confidential content - for example
> for web site purposes).
>
> Finally you will need to enter your "cron" command (check the examples
> listed below).
>
> Cheers
> Stéphane
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Sanjay
>
> On 9/6/06, *Stéphane Croisier* <[email protected]> wrote:
>  At 09:45 05.09.2006, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have created a jahia 5.0 site with some portlets on my local machine.
> Now I want to export it to another machine for demo.
> How should I go about it? I checked out the xml import export feature but
> looks like it can only export portions of the site and it also doesn't
> export portlets.
> Also checked the "Manage Distant Site for Auto Export" in administration
> but couldn't understand what exactly it is for and whether it will fulfill
> my needs.
>
>
>
> You're right. The Export or Replication features (which basically use the
> same import/export utility) does not directly handle portlets export but
> just content replication. Portlets are another beasts. These are custom and
> specific webapps which run in their own Java context. So for example in
> Tomcat (and this is the same for all the other J2EE servers), the Jahia
> webapp can not access to the portlet API. Morevover each J2EE server has
> another manner of deploying and managing webapps. Finally each portlet can
> have its own DB pool connections and other kind of connectors/settings/....
> So most of the time, replicating a portlet is not just as easy as making a
> new war file and redploying it on the other server. So you will have to
> manage that on your own. (regarding the jahia portlets, most of the time
> they are prepackaged with en embedded HSQL DB, so you can just take the
> portlet directory in /Tomcat/webapps and copy it into the other server,
> reinitilaize the portlet in the Admin Center, then make a syncro with the
> Manage distant Site export and you will have the same web site, portlets
> included. Warning: if the content of your portlets is different from one
> server and the other (e.g. you deployed a discussion forum and you have
> tow different set of discussion threads on each server) you will have to
> deal with the merge of the DB yourself. Here again the portlet is a
> standalone dedicated web application...
>
> Cheers,
> Stéphane
>
>
>
>  Thanks
> Sanjay Goel
>  http://sanjaygoel.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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