pisaldi Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hi,I tried to upgrade my v3.4.7 trial site to beta 2 with a subdomain (prueba.invisionhispano.com) and it has been impossible...Now, I'm trying to install in a subfolder (invisionhispano.com/prueba) and I'm having a problem with the licence.The licence don't let me install in the subfolder as it says that the licence is active.The licence was used in the subdomain but I have deleted ALL the files from the subdomain prueba so it can't detect anything active not the live site...How should I do for IPS to allow the licence for the new subfolder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hi,I tried to upgrade my v3.4.7 trial site to beta 2 with a subdomain (prueba.invisionhispano.com) and it has been impossible...Now, I'm trying to install in a subfolder (invisionhispano.com/prueba) and I'm having a problem with the licence.The licence don't let me install in the subfolder as it says that the licence is active.The licence was used in the subdomain but I have deleted ALL the files from the subdomain prueba so it can't detect anything active not the live site...How should I do for IPS to allow the licence for the new subfolder ?1 License = 1 live and 1 test can only be reset every 6 months unless pay $25 and again i could fixed your issue with current problem but seem refuse help !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Silvester Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hi,Please refer to this documentation for IPS4 license queries: http://community.invisionpower.com/4docs/settings/ips-license-key-r6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kysil Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 1 License = 1 live and 1 test can only be reset every 6 months unless pay $25 and again i could fixed your issue with current problem but seem refuse help !!!Where can I request/ask URL for my a test domain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pisaldi Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Where can I request/ask URL for my a test domain?You can use 1 license with your live site, and another one for test site and your must enter as license number your license number followed by -TESTINSTALL But remember you can not change the folder / subdomain and you must wait 6 months to change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Where can I request/ask URL for my a test domain? client area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudo Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 As much as this is policy I think its a mistake to only allow either a v3 test or a v4 test. If you have a live v3 you need a separate test site for v3 and for testing v4 beta development and migration at least during the beta period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kettner Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 This is a very bad idea. I have multiple test environments. Please let me know what is expected of those who are proper testing/staging/development servers. Are we suppose to buy multiple licenses? At the very least, we should be allowed to install on all subdomains and subdirectories.I am very disappointed about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsman Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 This is a very bad idea. I have multiple test environments. Please let me know what is expected of those who are proper testing/staging/development servers. Are we suppose to buy multiple licenses? At the very least, we should be allowed to install on all subdomains and subdirectories.I am very disappointed about this.On a live domain install internet connected 1 license equals 1 live board and 1 test board off line to the public this true as we all know, no ands ifs or buts about it and I understand IPS's stand on this and I completely agree on their stand, but as far as a localhost Wamp / Xamp environment where it is offline and can only be used or viewed by the developer / designer this is creating an issue while setting up multiple scenarios in development and design. For years we have been doing it this way since as far back as the 1.3 days. This was even brought up in an article around 3.0 - 3.0.5 by an ex staff member / developer while building applications mods and hooks while having a different board for each. I have always ran 3-4 boards while in skin design where I could drop any form of code change to test the out come without total destruction of a primary test board or skin design.At present I have no way of doing this even on my local where according to IPS's stand is not considered. But in fact it is. You cannot create a multiple boards due to license call out verifier telling you that you are not allowed because this license is already active... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The license server does not restrict localhost installations. You can install the software with the -TESTINSTALL license key on localhost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsman Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The license server does not restrict localhost installations. You can install the software with the -TESTINSTALL license key on localhost.Yes for the first test (upgrade) suite but if you attempt to create a 2nd (or more) as in a backup to test other coding in order to prevent total damage to the first test site it is not allowed.Example:http://localhost/kmg-test-1 will install with no issue using your "license key-TESTINSTALL"but if I were to create a 2nd at http://localhost/kmg-test-2this is not allowed as you can with 3.4.7 and earlier it will fail.On another note what I don't like about Wamp or Xampp they both have to be added into the Windows firewall.... being a local environment this one still blows me away even though the Wamp virtual server is offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kettner Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The license server does not restrict localhost installations. You can install the software with the -TESTINSTALL license key on localhost.I think at the very minimum any decent sized site has something of the formdev.example.com, staging.example.com, example.com (production). For a decent number of sites the number of dev sites could be substantial. You should probably explicit state that don't support common best practices of having multiple staging and development servers if you are going this route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kettner Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Also what about the use case of using Vagrant to test. This would be an awful limitation for those users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSP Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I agree very much, @kettner. IPS should have better support that kind of setup, it's something we're able to do for all our other sites where I work, but not the communities, due to the way hooks are installed, skins and languages generated from ACP to disk etc.It's always so much extra work and tedious than I feel it could be for 3.x when I need a test environment or develop something compared to the other sites that are hosted by the company I work in. So I usually just end up commiting most changes directly to prod and hope for the best, lol.I'll likely have a look at how to best setup our git and deploy environment for the IPS 4 communities during christmas. Hopefully I'll at least be abld to figure out a better approach than the way we have it in 3.x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Dąbek Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Just now I ran into this issue in stupid way - tried to convert my board online from 3.4.7 to 4.0 b8 (as it went way too slow on localhost). Got problems so I installed clean IPB 4.0 to new folder with weird name. After I found solution, I deleted subfolder and I realized that I'm now unable to convert online at all as TESTINSTALL is now used and I even cannot reset/change it by paying - no Reset button (probably because I got no main URL yet, I'm keeping this for final conversion, I got only test URL which cannot be resetted now). I'm stuck Stupid mistake as test domain stays the same, just subfolder data is wrong EDIT: I cannot even reinstall IPB to already provided test URL as it says that it is already activated. Totally stuck. Any help appreciated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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