Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 27 Aug 2007 01:51 GMT-0000 posts: 4656

> I forgot to mention that the documentation on Upgrading doesn't appear to cover a 1.9.7 to 1.9.8 path, so I'm a bit concerned. As well, there's a point where the docs say to create a second site for the new install... but another spot in the docs say to just backup, upload to the same location, and run the installation script again (going into the Upgrade section). So... how do we do this properly???

Well, 1.9.8 isn't released yet, so there's no specific documentation for that. In any case, for Tiki versions 1.9 and above, the installation script can be run and will update the database as necessary (tiki1.8to1.9 for the versions we're talking about here).

I believe the "use a new location" instructions are for updates in which the currently installed Tiki is quite old, so there could be major file differences. In the case of 1.9+ upgrades, you can install over the top of the current installation. As the instructions say, be sure everything is backed up first (especially the database, as it contains your actual, original site content. If you haven't modified any template files, they are expendable.) You can do an ftp "overwrite everything" transfer if you want to be thorough and don't mind taking the time for that, or you can specify "overwrite if newer" and just the files that have been changed will be replaced. But a lot of files have been updated in 1.9.8 .

-- Gary themes.tw.o