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Migrate Corporate Wiki From BSD to Windows
Our corporate wiki box is a free bsd server. However, we no longer have a bsd administrator on staff, so we need to migrate all the data stored to some other format, preferrably sharepoint. Is there a way to take the wiki data and convert it to csv files or something along those lines? Our primary concern is getting the data to a windows readable format and we'll work on it from there.
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It uses twiki and writes to a flat file.
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The windows install of twiki looks horrible and I believe it. We have had a lot of trouble getting open source stuff working on windows in the past and don't really want to spend the time on it.
Is there anyway to easily convert all these pages to word documents? The departments that use it would like all the content to be in sharepoint and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that.
Is there anyway to easily convert all these pages to word documents? The departments that use it would like all the content to be in sharepoint and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that.
That's a rather bizarre comment: we use OSS stuff all the time and it works really well. And the price can't be beaten! Don't believe the FUD the MS puts out about OpenSource - it's not true. BTW, if you find TWiki difficult, wait until you try SharePoint - now hat *is* difficult to setup and maintain :-)
Anyway, probably the best way to manage your TWiki stuff is to export them as HTML pages which you can then convert to MS Word format if that's what you want. To convert from the text/TWiki markup, you need to run the perl TML2HTML (in the TWiki tools directory) on the relevant files, the output is the HTML you can then send over to your Windows machine and massage to produce the document format you want, perhaps by loading into Word and saving to DOC files.
Anyway, probably the best way to manage your TWiki stuff is to export them as HTML pages which you can then convert to MS Word format if that's what you want. To convert from the text/TWiki markup, you need to run the perl TML2HTML (in the TWiki tools directory) on the relevant files, the output is the HTML you can then send over to your Windows machine and massage to produce the document format you want, perhaps by loading into Word and saving to DOC files.
Probably your best bet is to install the same Wiki onto a Windows machine, and migrate the data directly across, installing MySql and Apache if necessary (that's a much more reliable and scalable solution that Sharepoint anyway).