Migrate Your Wiki To Production

So you have spent a great deal of time implementing a Wiki site in your WSS development environment and now you want to migrate it to production. Where do you start?

You might think to create a site template but you will find that when you go to create your new site you will get an error. So here is your work around.

Go to your Wiki (or any other list) and click 'Settings' --> Document Library Settings


Under Permissions and Management click Save document library as template

Click ‘list template gallery’.

Click the List Template Name (WikiWiki) and save it to a location accessible to your new site collection.





Go to the ‘List Template Gallery’ of the Site you need to move your list to. Remember that this needs to be the top site. You will be able to add the list anywhere you want within the structure.

Create a new Wiki Site as you would normally using the ‘Create Site’ functionality.

Now click Site Actions, Site Settings, Site Libraries and Lists

Delete Wiki Pages (Click Customize ‘Wiki Pages’ --> Delete This Document Library )

Under Site Libraries and Lists click Create New Content. You should find your original list name (WikiWiki) under the Lbraries column. Select the original data and name it ‘Wiki Pages’ (or anything else you like).

You have just migrated your Wiki data.