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Resolved How to migrate AEM settings for Application

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  1. Munther Khatib
    Munther Khatib
  2. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
  3. Thursday, 21 January 2021 02:18 AM UTC

Hi

 

I am migrating a PB 12.5 application from Appeon 6.5 server to PB2019 R2 and Powerserver 2020.

I would like to make sure the application setting for each application in AEM are the same in both machines.

 

What would be the best way to accomplish this? Is there one page or several pages i have to check for, write down the values and compare to the values on other machine?

 

Is there a way to export application settings from old machine and then import them into new machine?

 

Thanks,

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  1. Thursday, 21 January 2021 02:32 AM UTC
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Hi Munther,

You cannot migrate PowerServer version 6.5 settings to version 2020.  A lot of new settings were added since 6.5.

Best regards,
Armeen

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Munther Khatib
  1. Munther Khatib
  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 06:06 AM UTC
Hi Armeen

Okay we will leave the new settings at their default values.



However, there must be some common config settings ( i.e Timeouts, etc.).

How can I make sure these settings are the same?



THanks,,
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 06:33 AM UTC
Just go through them and compare. As I said, the version you are using is way too old do there is no good way to import the settings.
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Munther Khatib
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  1. Thursday, 21 January 2021 13:47 PM UTC
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Armeen,

 

How do you normally track all these configuration settings in AEM? Is there one tab or page that lists those?

 

Thanks,

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:28 PM UTC
Sorry, there isn’t such a feature for all the AEM settings. We will be improving this in PowerServer 2021.



I know it seems silly to go through AEM and document each setting, but unless you have dozens of apps I cannot imagine it takes more than 30 minutes.
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Munther Khatib
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  1. Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:41 PM UTC
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No I only have one application.

 

I just wanted to confirm on which tab or page in AEM you select to check the current Appeon 6.5 server setting and then compare those values to the ones in Appeon 2020.

 

I remember changing only one setting related to transaction timeouts in Appeon 6.5.

 

Munther

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:46 PM UTC
There isn't a single page for all the settings. You need to go through each page of AEM and just take screenshots or write it down.
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mike S
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  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:47 PM UTC
you should copy, maybe take a screen shot, of every setting and then compare to what is in 2020. even the current export/import doesn't set everything up for you (logins/passwords), so you really need to keep it all documented if this is a production system.



Also, are you moving to a NEW IIS server? If so, you also need to configure IIS.
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Munther Khatib
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  1. Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:58 PM UTC
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Armeen

 

Yes, we are moving from IIS 6 to IIS 10.

I think both are set to default install values.

Do you normally change configuration settings for IIS with Appeon server? 

Is there a way to check if any settings were customized for IIS?

 

Thanks,

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mike S
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  2. Thursday, 21 January 2021 18:52 PM UTC
You MUST install (add) ISAPI, ASP.NET and .NET extensibility (as armeen posted above) in IIS.



The instructions MAY talk about installing IIS6 management compatibility, but i don't install that and I don't think it is used anymore by PS.



I add HTTP redirection and dynamic content compression, but they are not required.





If you are using 10x compression (why wouldn't you want to use compression?!), then there is required module mapping configuration: MODULE mappings (Handler Mapping ) for F#### files. (see Appeon PowerServer Readme.hmt ) for instructions. It appears that only the f#### files are needed to be setup.





if you are using FTP to load your application to the server, then you will need to set FTP up as well.



If you have any long running processes, then you may need to change IIS timeouts in the web.config file.



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Munther Khatib
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  2. Friday, 22 January 2021 15:32 PM UTC
Hi



I have followed the Appeon installation documentation on installing IIS before the powerserver.

That includes ASP.NET and enabling some options in IIS before install.



I think you are calling these configuration while i considered it installation prerequisite.



I have not done anything after IIS installed because I have not seen any document that requested that in Appeon.



Munther
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Friday, 22 January 2021 15:55 PM UTC
Yes, those pre-requisites are what is Appeon-specific to make PowerServer work. All the other configuration options of IIS is up to you to meet your business and technical needs. If you are not experienced in setting up IIS for a production environment, I would recommend getting an IIS expert to help you from your company or work with one of our consulting partners. https://www.appeon.com/consultants/consulting-partners
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Munther Khatib
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  1. Friday, 22 January 2021 16:00 PM UTC
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Armeen,

 

Let me research this IIS configuration issue. Thanks for pointing it out.

Maybe i should check the old IIS server too to see if they did reconfiguration for that one too.

 

Thanks,

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Friday, 22 January 2021 16:27 PM UTC
That is good idea. If the IIS version is the same, you should be able to use the same exact settings.
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Munther Khatib
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  1. Thursday, 28 January 2021 01:50 AM UTC
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Is this what you mean by setting up IIS up for production environment? 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-set-up-your-first-iis-web-site-b440fffe-ab77-d86b-3836-623218ba7ab4

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:10 AM UTC
This is just the minimum steps to get the server working. At least I would look into adding SSL certificate and securing your Web server from unauthorized access.
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