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_setu... -------------------------------- 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). --------------------------------

Starts clearly enough REINSTALL but then comes the Starting Over part

https://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes#Starting...

---------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------

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.