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    • I've been a bad boy. Upgrade from 2.0 to 5?

    Posted by George Greene posts: 257 United States

    I know, I know, I should have done this but I put it off when my hosting service switched from the crappy Fantastico installer to SimpleScripts and it was a pain and I didn't do it. Now it says Tiki 2's too old to upgrade using Simplescripts.

    Coupla... ok, four questions:

    1) Do I have to upgrade in steps, i.e., Tiki 3 then 4 then 5? Or will I luck out and be able to go right to 5?

    2) Can I just drop whatever zipped Tiki install folder into the directory and let the server's file manager uncompress the files?

    3) Would it be better (or even possible) to install Tiki 5 in new directory and somehow bring over the database or import the records from the old database into the new Tiki database the tiki 5 install created? Am I making sense?

    4)I bet the database has changed a bit; anything special I have to do there?


    Anything else i forgot to worry about? I'm already using Tiki 5 for two other sites and I love it!

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    Posted by Darren posts: 289 United States

    Did you check out the Upgrade documentation? I think that should answer most of your questions.

    I'd personally be inclined to install Tiki 5 to a new location (since so many files have changed or been removed completely), and then simply point Tiki 5 install to your original database. The installer should take care of making changes to your database (removing/adding tables and columns as needed).

    I'm guessing you're gonna have some major breakages though, since a lot has changed between versions 2 and 5. Not to be pessimistic but don't expect to up and running in a matter of minutes. Definitely backup all of your files and the database before you do anything. Of course, it all depends on what features you've used and how deeply you've configured things. It's really impossible to say for sure how things will go, but always give yourself a path to go back in case things fail miserably.

    Lastly, you really should check out all the changes in the various versions from Tiki 3, Tiki 4, to Tiki 5. There are some real biggies like Category permissions which have changed significantly.

    Good luck!