Hi, I am trying to organise that we set up a version 5 test site so we can install it and understand it and get used to it before we then update our live site.


I see that we have to change our licence to a version 5 licence.


If I change the licensed version 5 licence, we still able to carry on using version 4?


Also, I feel nervous about even upgrading our test site until we know exactly what we are doing.


This means that we would be operating our live site, a test site – and also a version 5 test site – until we felt comfortable.
In other words, we would be operating three sites and I understand that this would be beyond the licensing terms. How can we manage this please

We have a huge forum. Over 5 million pages, 400,000 members, over 400,000 topics. It simply a volunteer service and any things to go smoothly as possible with as little stress as possible.

So I suppose what I'm asking is please could we run two test sites for a while – our existing version 4 – and an experimental version 5.

Thanks

 

If I change the licensed version 5 licence, we still able to carry on using version 4?

Yes, I think so. I've changed the license and I am still using Ipb 4.7.20.

 

Also, I feel nervous about even upgrading our test site until we know exactly what we are doing.

There is nothing to be nervous about this imo. If things don't go as planned you can start over again and again until you get things right as that won't disrupt your main forum at all. Regarding the upgrade process itself please see the Manual Upgrade section of the following link:

 

So I suppose what I'm asking is please could we run two test sites for a while – our existing version 4 – and an experimental version 5.

I don't think that this is possible, but let's see what the Ips stuff will have to say. Hopefully they will make an exception.

 

@Miss_B thanks for the installation link above – that refers to version 4. I need to find a link to version 5 I suppose

It's the same procedure for a manual upgrade to Ipb 5 as well.

Its not possible to run 3 sites, unless you run your test sites on localhost (you can use many test sites on localhost if needed, but has to be the localhost address). If you switch to the new license terms, you can indeed still use version 4

Thank you for this.


One further question, please. I notice that the version 5 download doesn't include converters et cetera which were necessary with version 4 because we came from a different platform.


Does that mean that converters are not necessary any more?

Thanks

 

Does that mean that converters are not necessary any more?

I think the reason the converters aren’t listed is because they haven’t been updated for v5 yet.

Thank you. I can take it from that then that version 5 could not yet be used for people who have migrated from a different system – even though this was now several years ago. We came over from vbulletin

Tank you - but I seem to remember that once we upgraded without converters and there was chaos

I'm just very keen to get a test version installed so I can take my time to see how it all works and see what work I need to do to configure it so it suits what we do.

Thank you.

What is the consequence of not having the converters if we install version 5 on the live site?

Edited March 24Mar 24 by BankFodder

It’s my understanding and I may be wrong once you convert a site from other forum software ie xenForo, phpBB, etc you don’t really need them anymore so if you have already converted your site to Invision then you should be able to just update to v5. Again I could be wrong but since you said you’re going to be doing this on a test install first then there really is no harm to try it.