2020-08-01, 02:36 PM
I'm trying to upgrade my forum, but I'm unclear about two aspects of the procedure:
Replacing files
Step 1 of the upgrade documentation says to overwrite all of the current installation files with all of the contents of/Upload. Doing this will remove the current plugins, themes and custom content (e.g. avatars, flags, smilies etc. that have been added). This doesn't make sense to me because it will mean having to manually install (and/or configure) these items again after upgrading, but it's what will happen if I follow the first step of the documentation - I just want to check that this is correct!
Selecting the installed version to upgrade from
When I've replaced the existing directory contents with the Upload directory contents, I've opened /install in the browser., as Step 2.1 instructs. Step 3 of the documentation says I should see a dropdown asking me to select the version being upgraded from, but I can't see this. The first page I see is 'Welcome':
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I've continued as far as Table Creation and found that the process just overwrites the existing database - which definitely seemed like something that shouldn't be happening during an upgrade.
When should I see this dropdown and how do I ensure I can see it?
Managed to resolve both (resolving the first issue resolved the second). I tried to merging and replacing files and directories, instead of overwriting them, just to see what happens. This resulted in me seeing the dropdown box and I think might be what the upgrade documentation actually intends.
Replacing files
Step 1 of the upgrade documentation says to overwrite all of the current installation files with all of the contents of/Upload. Doing this will remove the current plugins, themes and custom content (e.g. avatars, flags, smilies etc. that have been added). This doesn't make sense to me because it will mean having to manually install (and/or configure) these items again after upgrading, but it's what will happen if I follow the first step of the documentation - I just want to check that this is correct!
Selecting the installed version to upgrade from
When I've replaced the existing directory contents with the Upload directory contents, I've opened /install in the browser., as Step 2.1 instructs. Step 3 of the documentation says I should see a dropdown asking me to select the version being upgraded from, but I can't see this. The first page I see is 'Welcome':
I've continued as far as Table Creation and found that the process just overwrites the existing database - which definitely seemed like something that shouldn't be happening during an upgrade.
When should I see this dropdown and how do I ensure I can see it?
Managed to resolve both (resolving the first issue resolved the second). I tried to merging and replacing files and directories, instead of overwriting them, just to see what happens. This resulted in me seeing the dropdown box and I think might be what the upgrade documentation actually intends.