Hooray for Foswiki's compatibility

I moved an active but aging 2004 TWiki "Cairo" installation to Foswiki today, as part of a hardware upgrade. It was a lovely experience. Foswiki installed quickly and easily. I did not even need any extra plugins because all of the plugins used on the old server come standard with Foswiki (along with several others, like the WYSIWYG editor, heh heh).

Foswiki supports TWiki data files, including old "Cairo" files, so I copied the content from the old server into Foswiki. … And then I held my breath and pointed my browser at the new Foswiki.

It Just Worked.

It was also straightforward to transfer the user authentication information across to Foswiki; I simply appended the original server's .hpasswd file to the Foswiki's .htpasswd file - once again, It Just Worked.

It is supposed to work. This is supposed to be straightforward. And it actually is.

Hooray for Foswiki's compatibility!