[IPT] A "simple" question about switch from Test to Production mode
Michel Kapel
mkirbsn at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 11:01:22 CEST 2014
Hello.
We are going to switch our IPT from "test" to "production" mode.
The documentation seems clear about it but I'd like to be sure of something.
At this point In the doc
https://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes#IPT_setup_II
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To switch from test to production mode or vice versa, you will have to
reinstall your IPT and repeat any configurations you made. (see the
"Starting Over" section in this Getting Started Guide).
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Starts clearly enough
REINSTALL
but then comes the
Starting Over
part
https://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes#Starting_Over
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It is relatively easy to re-initiate the IPT and begin again with the
first setup page by doing the following:
Every user who is logged in to the IPT should first log out.
Remove the file called datadir.location from the folder where it was
created by the IPT (normally WEB-INF within the IPT base
installation directory - not within the IPT data directory
configured in the first setup step).
The person having the default administrator information and
knowledge of the IPT installation should open the IPT in a web
browser.
This will show the initial IPT setup page again
(see the "IPT setup" section in this Getting Started Guide).
If the user enters the same absolute path to the data directory
as before,
the previous configuration will be completely restored,
assuming that there
has been no incompatible upgrade in IPT versions between the
time when the
data directory was last used and when it is used to re-initiate
the IPT.
If the same data directory location is desired, but without the
previous
IPT configuration, then the contents of that data directory
should be moved to a
different location or removed entirely before clicking on "Save"
in the initial IPT setup page.
If an entirely new data directory is used, then the setup will
proceed
exactly as described in the "IPT setup" section of this Getting
Started Guide.
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So here comes my question.
Could just starting with an entirely new data directory allow switching
for "test" to "production"?
The choice of IPT mode looks like part of the rest of the procedure in
that particular case.
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