Failed to upload Chinese alphabet filename to indico

We are used indico as our meeting management system to manage the meeting.

We face the issue as try to upload file that file name with Chinese alphabet, then we will received error message like failed to upload file.

Base my experience , The Chinese filename problem is caused by the way Python handle utf-8 coding.but I don’t know how to solve it.

Can anyone give me any suggestion that how to solve the issue. Many thanks.

Jimmy

Which version of Indico are you using?

maybe * [Indico 1.9.6]

our indico link as https://indico.leeinst.sjtu.edu.cn and i am fresh new of indico administrator.

This is an old version that was never supposed to be used in production. It is unsupported and you should update as soon as possible to the latest supported version.

Unfortunately this will be a very painful update since you go through all the intermediate steps manually (which is we we always told people to not use 1.9.x versions in production).

Here are some links that might help you:

thanks so much.

base your recommendation, i would like to install latest supported version of indico in my new server.

my new server run on CentOS 7 and want to apply OAuth 2 as my new sso.

so my question is how do i migrate db from old server to the new server.

Please see the links in my previous post…

base on your previous post, i use the last one which is Upgrade Indico from 1.2.

so i follow the step to do the upgrade.

i have new server and install apache and move data to /opt/indico-legacy

then i face issue on step Running indico-migrate,when i try to copy indico-migrate postgresql:///indico file:///opt/indico-legacy/db/Data.fs --archive-dir /opt/indico-legacy/archive --storage-backend legacy --default-email default@acme.example.com --default-currency EUR --symlink-target ~/archive/legacy_symlinks/ --symlink-backend legacy-symlinks --migrate-broken-events then system report error as below

please give me some advise that how to do that.

thanks so much

You cannot use indico-migrate to migrate from an older 1.9.x version. That’s why I included the other links.

This upgrade won’t be pleasant for whoever runs it as it involves tons of manual steps. Not keeping the old data and starting from scratch would actually be easier if that’s an option for you!

first of all, i would like to say thank you to you.

for other links you provide on previous post it should be run on system which i install the old version of indico, but i really be afraid of to do that upgrade on the old server. if the system is damage of indico then i will no system to support my current business.

can i do the following step

  1. copy all the file under /opt/indico to the new server
  2. run the code to the manual upgrade.

or any other advise ?