All applications dissapear on importing .004 db to .005

[gjpc]

I am moving my egroupware to another system. the original system is running 1.8.004 the destination is 1.8.005

When I restore the exported database all the applications disappear. I get the message:

eGroupWare API version 1.8.005 found. eGroupWare configuration file (header.inc.php) version 1.29 exists and is up to date

Your database is working, but you dont have any applications installed (mysqli://egroupware:#vBMuPEu3/{!:tid@localhost/egroupware). Use --install to install eGroupWare.

Any suggestions?

[gjpc]

I solved this problem by simulating a code upgrade on the egroupware 1.8.004 database. The original system is a FreeBSD 9.1 and the target is UBUNTU 12.04.

1. dump the orginal 1.8.004: mysqldump -u root -p egroup > egroup.sql
2. import into the target machine: mysql -u root -p egroupware < egroup.sql
3. go to the target machine’s setup URL in a browser: http://machine/egroupware/setup
4. login as Setup/Config Admin and perform the upgrade steps

The database commands will differ if you are not using MySQL.

BONUS POINTS:

The url in the 1.8.005 debian package is http://machine/egroupware/
The url in the 1.8.004 FreeBSD package is http://machine/ew/

edit your /etc/apache2/conf.d/egroupware and add an additional Alias line towards the top of the file:

 <b>Alias /eg /usr/share/egroupware</b>

be sure you alias the original machine’s alias to what ever the /egroupware alias is that already exists in the file.