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questions on upgrading [message #32298]

Mon, 19 June 2006 18:24

nissan

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Hi,

I am planning to upgrade fudforum and have the following q's please:

1- I saw there is already an upgrade.php in WWW_SERVER_ROOT; do
I simply replace it with the one I got from FUDforum_upgrade_zl_2-7-5.tar file?

2- The upgrade instructions say using your web browser run upgrade.php; how do I do this step? from where exactly?

I'd appreciate it if you could clarify the upgrade instructions.

Thanks very much.

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Re: questions on upgrading [message #32305 is a reply to message #32298]

Mon, 19 June 2006 23:48

Ilia

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You need to extract upgrade.php from the archive you've download and the access it via the web browser.

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Re: questions on upgrading [message #32317 is a reply to message #32305]

Tue, 20 June 2006 15:47

nissan

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How do I access the file from my web browser. Do I need to use the admin account?

Thanks for your help!!

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Re: questions on upgrading [message #32324 is a reply to message #32317]

Tue, 20 June 2006 20:18

Ilia

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Well, you simply to the URl where the upgrade.php script can found, if you put it inside the forum's directory it'll be inside http://www.yourforum/url/upgrade.php

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Re: questions on upgrading [message #32351 is a reply to message #32324]

Wed, 21 June 2006 19:34

nissan

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If the upgrade does not work can I go back to the older revision?
How can I do it?

Thanks for your support!

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Re: questions on upgrading [message #32358 is a reply to message #32351]

Thu, 22 June 2006 00:30

JamesS

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First, to upgrade the forum you must place the "upgrade.php" script in the web root of your forum. That is, if your forum is at http://www.example.com/forum/ you would place it in the directory that servers example.com/forum and access it by http://www.example.com/forum/upgrade.php.

In regard to downgrading. The simplest way would be to make a data dump of your forum before upgrading and then reinstalling the old version. You would want to completely start over like it is a new install; that means dropping the tables from the database. Then you would import your old data dump and you should be back to where you were. Though, I don't know why you would want to downgrade.

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