Hello everybody,

I need to upgrade my IPS from 4.5.4.2 to latest available version which is now 4.7.20 but when I tried to do this using automatic way via Admin Panel I was told that I'm using old PHP version (7.4.33) and I need to switch to at least 8.0.0. So I did this on the settings via Hosting Panel - actually I switched to 8.4, 8.2, 8.0 but all the time when I did this the page became unavailable. Question is what I need to do to proceed forward ? Do you have any procedure step by step what to do ?

Thanks in advance,

Pawel

You would need to upgrade manually, so upload a fresh set of files from your client area, then run the upgrade from /admin/upgrade

Hey,

thanks for your prompt response. However before I proceed with manual upgrade I need to confirm step-by-step what to do. So my understanding is: |
1. Switch PHP to 8.x from my Hosting Panel
2. Upload latest version of IPS 4.7.20 and move all extracted files to my forum main directory like ~/public_html
3. Open from the browser upgrade page like mypage.com/admin/upgrade & login using my AdminCP credentials then proceed with an upgrade

Is that correct procedure ?

7 minutes ago, Pawel Popiolek said:

Hey,

thanks for your prompt response. However before I proceed with manual upgrade I need to confirm step-by-step what to do. So my understanding is: |
1. Switch PHP to 8.x from my Hosting Panel
2. Upload latest version of IPS 4.7.20 and move all extracted files to my forum main directory like ~/public_html
3. Open from the browser upgrade page like mypage.com/admin/upgrade & login using my AdminCP credentials then proceed with an upgrade

Is that correct procedure ?

Correct, but make sure you're using PHP 8.1. Newer versions of PHP are only supported on v5.

Make sure you have a current backup before proceeding!

Hello,

Upgrade went good w/o any error messages however when I open a page as regular user I receive some errors like this:

• [[Template core/front/global/userPhoto is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

I'm trying to find this support tool in new version but it seems something has changed and it doesn't look as it was before.

Any advice what can I do ?

Hey,

I've fixed this issue I reported in my previous message - it was connected to some plugin which is not supported anymore.

Anyway, as I was away for a while with updates, new versions, Invision community, etc. I realised that MarketPlace is gone away so the question I have is: do we have a place where we can download plugins, additions, applications etc to improve our IPS platform ?

Your site appears to be on version 4 at present. Have you since reverted this? We need to really see the system logs related to that error in order to be able to advise

2 hours ago, Pawel Popiolek said:

Hey,

I've fixed this issue I reported in my previous message - it was connected to some plugin which is not supported anymore.

Anyway, as I was away for a while with updates, new versions, Invision community, etc. I realised that MarketPlace is gone away so the question I have is: do we have a place where we can download plugins, additions, applications etc to improve our IPS platform ?

Most app developers sell their work on their sites. By clicking on their profiles you can see the sites.

3 hours ago, Marc said:

Your site appears to be on version 4 at present. Have you since reverted this? We need to really see the system logs related to that error in order to be able to advise

I have upgraded to 4.7.20 and now I'm on this version. The mentioned plugin (taken some time from Marketplace) was working OK on 4.5.4.2 version but stopped to work on 4.7.20 - anyway, I've disabled it completely and it's fine now. I will try to check if developer has newer version to update.