After you migrate to IBM Connections™ 6.0, perform post-migration tasks to ensure that your new deployment is complete.
Before you begin
Ensure that you complete any required post-installation tasks.Ensure that you backed up
customized files from your Connections
5.0 or 5.5. For more information, see the Saving your
customizations topic.
About this task
After you update or migrate Connections, you must update any custom fields and customized files that might not be automatically updated
or migrated.
To finalize
the migration process, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Reapply the customizations that you used in 5.0 or 5.5. For more information about migrating
customizations, see the Saving your
customizations topic.
- Migrate any JSP, CSS, and string customizations.
- Verify that your Blogs themes are present in 6.0. If they are not, manually update them. For
more information, see the Customizing a blog theme topic.
- Update your customized Community themes.
- Copy the 5.0 or 5.5 version of the profiles-policy.xml file to the 5.0
deployment, overwriting the 6.0 version. For more information, see the Post-migration steps for profile types and
profile policies topic.
- Copy the customized XSD elements of the 5.0 or 5.5 service-location.xsd
file to the 6.0 version of the file.
- Redefine customized Profiles fields in the validation.xml file.
- Migrate your 5.0 or 5.5 JavaScript customizations.
For more information, see Customizing strings sourced in JavaScript and Extending JavaScript in IBM Connections.
- Reapply any proxy configurations, if necessary. For more information, see Configuring the Ajax proxy and
Configuring a reverse
caching proxy.
- Required: Migrate your 5.0 or 5.5 premigration content search indexes. For more information, see Migrating the
search index from the Connections 5.0 or 5.5 deployment to Connections 6.0.
- Synchronize the member database tables for each Connections application with the data in the
user directory. For more information, see Synchronizing user data
using administrative commands.
Note: You must have a web server that is configured for Connections before you synchronize Profiles
and the LDAP directory.
- If you changed the root URL of any Connections application, and if the old and
new URLs point to the same web server, redirect requests to the new URL.
- Open the httpd.conf file in a text editor. The file is in the ibm_http_server_root/conf directory.
- Uncomment the following line:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
- Add the following statements:
Note: - The lines that refer to weblogs redirect all requests for the pre-migration
URL of https://blog50.example.com/weblogs/* to the post-migration URL of
https://blog50.example.com/newblogs/*. Substitute your own URLs.
- The lines that refer to bookmarklet redirect the path of the bookmarklet
feature to make it work in 6.0. Use the exact URLs shown.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /weblogs/(.*) https://blog50.example.com/newblogs/$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.*)/bookmarklet/(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/connections/bookmarklet/(.*)
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/bookmarklet/(.*) /connections/bookmarklet/$2
[noescape,L,R]
Listen 0.0.0.0:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /weblogs/(.*) https://blog50.example.com/newblogs/$1 [R,L]
ServerName blog50.example.com
SSLEnable
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.*)/bookmarklet/(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/connections/bookmarklet/(.*)
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/bookmarklet/(.*) /connections/bookmarklet/$2
[noescape,L,R]
</VirtualHost>
SSLDisable
- If you installed and configured IBM HTTP Server before
you install 6.0, map the host name of your deployment in the
LotusConnections-config.xml file. For more information, see the Updating IBM Connections to the
HTTP server topic.
- Optional: Remove the Location and ErrorDocument stanzas if
you added them to the httpd.conf file before migrating. For more information,
see the Informing users of a migration or
update topic.
What to do next
Important: After you complete the mandatory post-installation tasks, update the
deployment with the latest fixes. For more information, see
Updating IBM Connections 6.0 .