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I planned in doing the update from 1.6.8 to 1.6.11.

I have PHP 5.2.17 and MYSQL 5.0.96.

I already tested the upgrade on my local linux, but with more recent versions of PHP and Mysql, that's why I mentioned the version numbers, so you could advise if there is any problem.

But my question is about the upgrade. I have almost 30 thousand views per day, and even at night I have a lot of accesses.

How can I make sure that I can run the upgrade without anyone else accessing the update pages?

Thanks

turning your forum OFFLINE should be sufficient for upgrading. if you need more precautions then see replies here

see also http://docs.mybb.com/Upgrading.html

The method is to
use a .htaccess restriction on your
forum's root folder so that no one can access the front end.
This docs will help http://docs.mybb.com/Upgrading.html

(2013-11-05, 04:42 AM)blogantinom Wrote: [ -> ]How can I make sure that I can run the upgrade without anyone else accessing the update pages?

Try this, awesome method with cookie by frostschutz
http://community.mybb.com/thread-100345-...#pid792124

Thanks, I ended up using some instruction that would create an error page with .htaccess
When I tried to access from my 3G mobile, it went to a centos apache default page, anyway, I updated it quickly, for the next update I think I will test better on my local copy of my forum