Upgrading a Server-Based TW5 Wiki

[cpjobling]

I'm sure that this must be an FAQ but I couldn't find an answer!

When I first created my journal wiki, I used the tiddlywiki node.js tool version 5.1.15.

I have since upgraded using 'npm update' and I am now running the 5.1.17 version of the server. 

However, In the wiki control panel, for my server-based wiki, it reports version 5.1.15 which I assume means that the code is still from the original version. 

I used the tiddlywiki command tool to export my wiki as a single file wiki 'index.html' and used the update tool to upgrade to 5.1.17. No problems!

I saved the result as upgrade.html.

My question is, how do I export the tiddlers from upgrade.html back into my server-based wiki?

Chris

[Rob Hoelz]

Hi Chris,

I had a similar problem when I first updated my Node.js installation, but it was related to the fact that I had imported my tiddlers from an HTML installation, which sounds like it's not the case for you.  Either way, my issue was that I had saved all of the system tiddlers to my tiddlers/ directory (eg. $:/core and others) when I imported, and what's in tiddlers/ overrides what the NPM package provides.  Once I removed the offending tiddlers from my tiddlers/ directory, the upgrade worked as intended.  Does it sound like that could be your issue?

-Rob

[Chris Jobling]

I don’t think it’s quite the same. At the root, I think I’m lacking basic knowledge of how to go from the file-based TiddlyWiki served by the server to the single file version and back.

 

I know that tiddlywiki –rendertiddlers can be used to create a single file tiddlywiki.

 

I can use this to create a 5.1.15 snapshop and can upgrade that, using the upgrade tool, to 5.1.17. I then have an new single file TiddlyWiki. How do I convert that into the file-based one?

 

There doesn’t seem to be a render function that does this.

 

Chris

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[TonyM]

Have you tried importing the file based wiki into the node based wiki?

Tony

[cpjobling]

That's what I want to do, but aside from dragging each tiddler into a new blank wiki one by one, I have found no documented way to do this. All the docs talk about single file wikis.

[Jed Carty]

You can drag and drop the html file onto your node wiki and it should let you import all of the tiddlers. Although updating tiddlywiki via npm should have worked. In the folder that holds all of the .tid files for the wiki is there a file called something like $__core.tid? If so try deleting that (after making a backup of your wiki folder!).

[cpjobling]

Thanks for your advice. There wasn't a $__core.tid file in the tiddlers folder. So in the end I used this recipe!

• Created a backup of my older server wiki
• I created a new empty server-based wiki using tiddlywiki --init
  
• Started the server and opened the blank wiki in a browser
  
• Installed the non-standard plugins I had in my original wiki
  
• Created a single file wiki from my existing wiki using tiddlywiki --rendertiddler $:/core/save/all index.html text/plain
  
• Dragged the index.html file onto the new empty wiki and imported the tiddlers.
  
• Replaced the contents of the old tiddlers folder with the contents of the new tiddlers folder

Looks to be ok now.