Upgrade


Installing for the first time? Check out the installation instructions instead.

Overview
Upgrading an existing installation of TightWiki is fairly straightforward.

Generally, TightWiki is distributed in one of two packages, TightWiki.Linux.x64.zip or TightWiki.Windows.x64.zip.

Inside each of these zip files are two directories, one called data and one called Site. For upgrading an existing installation, you DO NOT need the data files - as your existing data files are upgraded in-place by the website itself. This includes automatically adding fields, data, tables, etc.

Process
  1. For safety, locate your existing installation data files and create a backup by copying them to a safe location.
  2. Extract the zip file, e.g. TightWiki.Windows.x64.zip
  3. Inside the extracted site directory, locate and delete the files: appsettings.json and web.config. This is because you do not want to overwrite your existing configuration files.
  4. Stop your site in IIS. This is so that the files will not be in use which would prevent you from overwriting the existing files.
  5. Copy the contents from the site extracted site directory to the location of your existing TighWiki installation, overwriting the existing files.
  6. Start the website in IIS.
  7. Browse to your site and give it a good smoke test.

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