Features / Usability

Posted by Kelly Rued 02 Jul 2004 08:52 GMT-0000 posts: 37

sdl,

I followed the upgrade instructions to the letter (ran tiki_1.7to1.8.sql, comments_fix_1.7to1.8.sql, structure_fix_1.7to1.8.sql and then ran the first one again). In fact I was so nervous to wreck my live installation I installed the 1.7.5 tikiwiki on my local machine and then populated it with my live site data to make a working duplicate.

Then I went through the upgrade process on my local site and that worked well. The only difference was that I did not have to ftp things and when I was upgrading the database I was able to browse to tiki-install.php and run the db scripts from that interface. On my live site I ran the scripts from phpMyAdmin. Otherwise I did all steps the same.

And it did work on the live site (or seemed to) for one day. I went into the admin though and turned on all the new features and things to see what they did. Next login, nothing works, no home page, all of these db errors so I am not sure why it worked then stopped working.

I have been reading everything on tikiwiki.org and sourceforge forums looking for a solution or things to try since yesterday morning. I'm leaving for the weekend and was hoping to fix the site before I go but it looks like the only way is to remove 1.8.3 and reinstall 1.7.5 with my old database backup. If anyone has ideas, I will try them first!

Thanks,
Kelly