Ranger64511

The questions were above and were answered, got some help with doing the upgrade and they had a lot of questions some of which I could answer some of which I couldn't the one's I couldn't are listed above and answered. 🙂

Thanks for the help! Lot of questions behind the best way to do this.

So procedural question. Update server to PHP8 first and then run the upgrade even though the version we're on the max php version won't support PHP8 or will 4.3 support it do you know?

Thanks, this all helps with coming up with a plan of action. Appreciate it.

Thank you, that'll help a lot. On a similar note do you think it would be possible (since we're self hosted) with our license to my understanding it allows us 1 Demo/Sandbox site. Would it be possible to basically copy our production use the sandbox license to keep it going do the upgrade on that and re-direct/point as needed? I know this is kinda overkill but can't hurt to think of ways to minimize downtime or to ensure upgrades work properly before doing it in production.

I'm gathering some information and could use some help/support. I've inherited a semi-mess of our website we are currently running version 4.3 of Invision Community. I was wondering about a few items. Is it possible to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.7.5 (Self Hosted)? While performing this upgrade (beyond third party plugins or custom built items) would the core items continue to work without issues? I am assuming yes but better to ask then not. If I did this upgrade what would the best approach be to perform it? Incremental is usually my go to for safety and rollback reasons. But could I make the big leap/jump to the latest? Can I even do incremental upgrades? What would that look like? Are we so far behind in upgrades we should just rebuild from scratch? Is it possible to export the data or re-link the data to the database (since we're self hosted?) I might have a few other questions down the road but figured this is a good start.