Completed 12/02/2007.

We're finally close to having a working eXist 1.1.1 setup on Lettuce, which will be the long-term home of all our eXist projects. This setup is a substantial improvement on the old one, because it allows more flexible indexing (for better performance), handles large files, and has some other useful new features.

However, moving projects to the new eXist requires:

• Having a user for the project (we already have one called "mariage").
• Moving the project Cocoon/eXist files into a "webapps" subdirectory in the project user home directory (a simple task, which enable other Cocoon instances to use the same site files without having to make copies of it, and allows access through common url paths such as cocoon/collections/mariage).
• Uploading the XML files into the new eXist db.
• Rewriting the XQuery to take account of changes in eXist.

All but the last are relatively trivial. Once this move is made, the current site can continue to be maintained with new data, but all functionality updates (such as the addition of a search page) will be done in the new location.