Upgrading from Redmine 1.1.3

Hi all,

We've been using RedMine for quite some time now, but because we lack a proper system administrator our RedMine installation has never been upgraded. We are at version 1.1.3 (Stable).
It runs on a Windows Vista "server" PC, but we are going to replace it with a Win10 (x64) Pro system. Good time to finally upgrade to the latest stable version.

I already found this topic on migrating RedMine Migration of Redmine which I believe is a good starting point, but it's on Linux and with same versions of installations. We are running Windows, coming from a very old version.

Does anyone know if this migration should run smoothly for me, or should I expect pitfalls?

Thanks in advance!

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RE: Upgrading from Redmine 1.1.3 - Added by Pavel Potcheptsov over 7 years ago

The best is to uninstall all plugins, make database dump, proceed with upgrade through all major branches.
However you can try to upgrade to the last 3.3.x branch)

RE: Upgrading from Redmine 1.1.3 - Added by RedmineNoob - over 7 years ago

Thanks for your reply.

I am so not familiar with these type of tools... Ruby, MySql, Mongrel, Apache...

I tried to get 1.1.3 running on the new W10 machine. I copied the entire C:\Program Files\BitNami Redmine Stack folder to the new machine, same path. Running serviceinstall.bat INSTALL installs the services, but redmineMongrel1 and redmineMongrel2 can't be started; error 1053.
In the install instructions from 1.1.3, i see I should "Test the installation by running the WEBrick web server":

ruby script/server -e production

I do get a working redmine page, but not on the same port as I usually have. And I suppose that is not how it should be done, right?

Also installed BitNami Redmine 1.2 from the BitNami installer (because it was the closest version to 1.1.3 I could find online). That does result in a started redmineMongrel1 and redmineMongrel2 services, and a working redmine page. But there are no projects of course.

So I read online that I should "make database dump" before upgrading. Ok, but how? I tried the following:

mysqldomp -u<root user> -p<password> bitnami_redmine > backup.sql

but then I get

mysqldump: Got error: 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) when trying to connect

Maybe this is all too big for me. Is there a way that I can get (paid?) support, so someone could do the upagrade for me, or together with me? Maybe some remote control support?
(I am based in the Netherlands btw.)
Or am I in the right direction, and close to the solution?

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