MigratingfromTiki253to28x
Hello, I've been having difficulties upgrading a need a little sanity check.
Currently I have Tiki 25.3 running on Ubuntu Server. To upgrade to a newer version of Tiki I will need to upgrade PHP. I have PHP 7.4.xx and MySQL 8.0.xx.
Upgrade roadmap for me should be the following...
- Upgrade PHP from 7.4.xx to 8.4
- Leave MySQL as is
- Upgrade Tiki 25.3 to 28.0
- Configure PHP settings
I will be performing all of these functions remotely with no physical access to the machine. If I fail to upgrade to 28.0, I plan to revert back by downgrading PHP back to 7.4 and reloading Tiki 25.3.
Just one more thought, I'm not against paying someone to help me do this. I literally taught myself Linux server administration to run Tiki.
I was able to upgrade from Tiki 25.3 to Tiki 27.1
I removed all instances of PHP by running
sudo apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`
Then I installed the newest default PHP from my repository which was 8.3.
Then I was able to install Tiki 27.1. Upgrade was successful. I did notice some slight formatting changes. Could be theme specific. The font appears altered and the dropdown boxes for dates appears to overlap. Otherwise, so far so good.