I just performed an in-place upgrade of a very old build of FlexWiki. When I opened the site for the first time after copying in the new files, I was presented with a page asking if I wanted to upgrade the config file. I did, it brought me to admin\UpgradeConfigFile.aspx, which then gave an error saying it couldn't file <wikirootfolder>\admin\Namespacemap.xml. I'm not sure why it was looking there, as my web.config clearly stated Namespacemap.xml is in <wikirootfolder>. To resolve, I copied Namespacemap.xml to the admin folder, refreshsed the page, and the process completed saying it successfully migrated the configuration. I then had to copy the new Namespacemap.xml file in the admin folder back down to the <wikirootfolder> (overwriting the original file). Now everything works.

 -----Original Message-----
 From: flexwiki-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:flexwiki-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Craig Andera
 Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:06 PM
 To: flexwiki-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: RE: [Flexwiki-users] upgrading and backward compatibility 


 > So we should backup the directory as a backup before installing in 
 > case we need to revert?


 Yes. Better safe than sorry. 


 > Can we just zip the entire directory and subdirectory?  I assume that 
 > will get everything?


 Yep. The only part of FlexWiki installation that isn't just a file copy is 
 the creation of the virtual directory, and that's obviously a one-time-ever 
 step.


 Of course, this assumes that you store your .wiki files in a subdirectory 
 of the fw install dir. This is the default (the WikiBases subdir), so unless 
 you've changed it, you should be okay.