[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Pat Lockley]

Yep

have an index.html ready with "This site is under maintenance" ready -
and remember not to overwrite database.php

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK.
>
> Being a 'just do it' kind of guy, I am thinking about right now just copying the new files over the top. Having the site_details site_location thing makes it difficult to ape the install on ltdev without creating a new database.
>
> If I backup the dir first, I can go back very quickly.
>
> Right?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 05 July 2012 14:05
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>
> yep, and at some point you might need to create it
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Ah, OK.
>>
>> So that needs adding in to the svn then?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 05 July 2012 14:01
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>>
>> when you set up XOT, is uses an SQL file in /setup/basic.sql to create
>> all the tables (not a problem if you already have a database).
>>
>> If the update script uses a database table called config, then at
>> present, the installer doesn't contain an instruction to make a table
>> called config.
>>
>> So it shouldn't be a problem for you to swap code.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Julian Tenney
>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> What did this mean?
>>> "(but see early q about where the config table is?)"
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>>> Sent: 05 July 2012 11:19
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>>>
>>> Speaking as Chief of Legacy code for XOT at Nottingham - don't forget
>>> all the crazy curveball settings for people who left, people without
>>> accounts, people with odd names stuck in the code. (mostly in
>>> index.php)
>>> I'd do a test version on LTDEV first for 1.8
>>>
>>> (but see early q about where the config table is?)
>>>
>>> As a suggestion.
>>>
>>> Get Unix bod to alter time stamps on all the files outside user-files.
>>> Then drop over the top. All files with the old date are spurious. Then
>>> delete those.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Julian Tenney
>>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to move our setup to 1.8 here: we've implemented some local changes
>>>> whilst development's been going on in the trunk, and things are getting a
>>>> bit out of synch, and I'm going to end up getting in a mess if I try and
>>>> bring all the various things into line bit by bit.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We'll also have a working and reasonably busy install running 1.8 and any
>>>> outstanding issues will quickly surface...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, $64m question: I can upgrade going over the top. I'd quite like to make
>>>> a clean set of files, i.e. backup the existing files; delete the files from
>>>> the folder on the web server, drop in the new files, and then go, so I'm not
>>>> left with a load of old files lying around that I'm not sure what to do
>>>> with: but I need to keep our config files etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How best to proceed? We should also write this up so others can follow a
>>>> simple set of instructions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I should probably wait until a  quiet ish time of the week to do this, and
>>>> it would be good if you guys were around for help, should I need it...
>>>>
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