Upgrading Source Only, Community Edition to KnowledgeTree Commercial

Upgrading Source Only, Community Edition to KnowledgeTree Commercial Edition

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Upgrading KnowledgeTree > Upgrading Source Only, Community Edition to KnowledgeTree Commercial

This procedure upgrades a KnowledgeTree Community edition, source only install, to the latest version of KnowledgeTree Commercial Edition.

**Note: This procedure describes an upgrade on Linux.

Perform the following steps:

1.	Back up your existing KnowledgeTree Source Only database to a file e.g. dump.sql.

2.	Back up your existing Documents directory.

3.	Download; then, run the KnowledgeTree Commercial Edition Stack Installer - Note: NOT the Commercial Upgrade Installer. Before running the installer on Linux, use the following command to make the package executable:

$ chmod +x ktdms-[current version]-linux-installer.bin

$ ./ktdms-[current version]-linux-installer.bin

4.	Restore your Source Only database over the Stack Installed database:

4.1.	Browse to the following directory:

<KnowledgeTree Stack Installation>\mysql\bin

4.2.	Drop the empty stack database with the following command:

./mysqladmin -u dmsadmin -p --socket=../tmp/mysql.sock drop dms

4.3.	Create a new, empty database with the following command:

./mysqladmin -u dmsadmin -p --socket=../tmp/mysql.sock create dms

4.4.	Restore your Source Only database with the following command:

./mysql -u dmsadmin -p --socket=../tmp/mysql.sock dms < dump.sql

5.	Run any required database upgrades; to do this, open the following page in your Internet browser:

http://your_stack_installation_ip:port/setup/upgrade.php

6.	Log in to KnowledgeTree's Web interface; then, perform the following tasks to complete this upgrade:

6.1.	Read and enable plugins.

6.2.	Install your KnowledgeTree Commercial Editions license key to activate Commercial functionality.

Note: For more information on these administrative tasks, see the KnowledgeTree

Administrator Manual.