long overdue upgrade

[tort]

I have been slack in upgrading both my server and my invision community
for a few years. This means I don't have access to the php8.0
compatibility tool. I also worry that upgrading multiple increments will
cause problems (there already seem some gremlins in the admin panel).
Combined with the uncertainties and unfamiliarities of the new server
(recently upgraded from centos7 to almalinux8) I was hoping I could get
support to do the upgrade for me please (paid, of course), but support sent me here.
I am at version 4.3.5. My new server has php8.0 but I had to turn it
back to 7.4 to make the forum work.

I've been told by support that it is a very big forum and this caused problems before when upgrading. I'd prefer to avoid my inexperience making things worse

Edited July 8 by tort

[teraßyte]

Yeah, based on what you said, the upgrade can be tricky. Especially if you don't upgrade often. 🙃

 

If you send me a PM with more details (number of posts, DB size, modifications installed, etc.) I can take a look tomorrow if it's not urgent. 👍

I'm replying from my phone right now so I can't exactly do much from it.

[Marc]

If this is something you are going to attempt yourself, essentially you will be doing the following

• Backup, backup, then backup some more
• Remove all 3rd party items that you are not 100% using
• The ones that are left, you need to contact the authors to see what to do with them. Thi sisnt really something we can advise on. Generally it would just be to disable them and then upgrade them once you have upgraded the software, but best practice would be to contact the author
• Switch the site offline from your admin CP
• Change your PHP settings to run PHP 8.1
• Run the requirement checker to make sure you have everything updated you need to on your server
• Upload a fresh set of files from your client area
• Run the upgrader from /admin/upgrade