jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 So, I attempted to upgrade a demo site (3.x) to Beta 5a. I did this by duplicating my live database. Uploading all 5a files into a new folder on my server. Copy/pasted the public and upload folder there as well. Then copied the config file. Edited the config file to point to the duplicated server.Ran the upgrader. When I finished, I've ended up with the following: http://profootballspot.com/spotv2 - Any clue what is going on here, or where I went wrong?
Ryan H. Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 URLs aren't correct. It's trying to load all resources (CSS, JS) from your old (real) site. I ran into the same thing.How to fix it? Not a clue. I'd like to know.
craigf136 Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 It's a pain in the butt granted, but if you login to the ACP, you will have the same issue of the style not being called. If you have a copy of a default V4 skin saved anywhere, you can add add a new theme, you just need to find the option to add a theme (which you can do), then upload the theme and then look for admin cp style (as seen below). Click on the admin cp style and select the style you just uploaded and it should fix the style in the ACP, you can change the default theme for the main site now with ease.
jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 Anyone know of a place to download only the V4 skin? Or could someone attach a file here for me to download?I can't install another one and do it myself, as it would have to be in the same directory as the current demo because of the licenses.
steve00 Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 no good giving v4 file as at moment importing skin files does not workbetter to login to admincp >> customization >> themes ... and create a new theme and see if that works
jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 Geez that was a pain as there's no stylesheet on the backend either - but it looks like I got it. Thanks so much for the help everyone!
Rhett Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 It looks like you didn't update your paths for the 3.x site before upgrading to 4?
jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 I spoke too soon. I'm still running into all sorts of issues, though it looks a little better now. It looks like you didn't update your paths for the 3.x site before upgrading to 4? Maybe? What's the process for this?
simplymesobe5280 Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 You always should change the pathes on the beta / test forum that you want to upgrade to this test forum. Also change the Cookie domain and Cookie prefix . Then save the database with these changes and use this one before you start the upgrader. If don´t do this it affects your live site.
jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 You always should change the pathes on the beta / test forum that you want to upgrade to this test forum. Also change the Cookie domain and Cookie prefix . Then save the database with these changes and use this one before you start the upgrader. If don´t do this it affects your live site.I'm sorry but I don't have a clue what you are talking about, or what the process of this is or would look like. Without doing that (which I'm assuming I didn't do, as I don't have a clue as to what any of that means) - how would it affect my live site? I haven't noticed anything going wrong with it.....
AndyF Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 You would change said details on the 34x installation before upgrading it (or move the 34x to the 'temp' location, update it then upgrade)I seem to recall reading yesterday iirc there's a script that could rectify this a rebuild that may be available. I cannot find the topic at the moment and limited connectivity limits my time online. Perhaps it may come with B6 when that appears. A member of the dev team will have to answer really.
jhutch Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 What details need to be changed prior to the upgrade? And how exactly would I have done that?I believe that I made all the necessary changes before the upgrade based on other topics that had instructions written out.
simplymesobe5280 Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 I suggest you make a subdomain like testdrive.yoursite.com. Copy your live forum to this new folder, import the database to a test database and run testdrive.yoursite.com .On it´s ACP at Settings: General Configuration change Path to 'upload' directory and Upload URL to the pathes of the testdrive folder. The right path is given here IP.Board has detected your uploads path as: . Just copy and paste. If you have other apps like gallery, blog etc installed you need to change the pathes there too. On Server Environment change the Cookie domain and Cookie prefix .You also need to update the conf_global.php on the test folder to the new pathes and database data.Now upload the 4.x.x beta and run the upgrader.
Ocean West Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 I have been plagued by this process for the past TWO MONTHS have had an open ticket and bug report and other topic here. TICKET REPORT NUMBER: 904316 (WTF - IT HAS BEEN CLOSED RESOLVED - IT HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED) http://community.invisionpower.com/4bugtrack/upgraded-to-b4-r1379/
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