Woodsman

13 hours ago, Joey_M said:

Did anyone upgrade IP.Content in the process from 3.4 to either 4.0 or 4.1?

Probably the worst effected side for me, yet I have managed to get most of it back working. I do find it frustrating, as this seems to be a poor area during the process and now I am left with articles which are unable to be reached.

@Woodsman did you upgrade IP.Content?

A while back there was a bug with Content converting to Pages as I remember. Pages has been a issue with me as well where I would have to do  a rebuild on them. And by this I mean from scratch, blocks and pages...

At this point I am in the process of building a fresh 4.1.3.2 suite on my local. Then if all goes to plan I am going to download my pages files from a 4.0 test and see what effect they will have on the fresh install. Hope fully under the new framework all will go well.

11 hours ago, Joey_M said:

Did you get a white page?

Like this - Link

This is what happens for me, yet mostly it takes forever to even load.

Wow! I clicked your link 2 minutes ago now finished answering my post above now at 5:30pm my time it's still trying to resolve.

Which versions of php and MySQL are installed on your server? (5:32 still resolving in MS Edge)

From what I remember from the original conversion I did over a year or more ago.... Under Tools there is or was an option prior to the start of the conversion.

Another thought comes to mind... Php and MySQL versions.... Are these also up to date? There is a version issue where the converter nor the upgrader will work properly. To be honest at this point I can't remember exactly where that cut off is.

Here it would be a great help for @Matt to chime in for clarification...

You should have had this option, I know I did when I converted mine to utf8mb4.

Did the converter give you the choice between utf8 and utf8mb4? I should have...

9 minutes ago, Mercury_ said:

Hello everyone.

Due the upgrade process I let fix the UFT8 collations. That ran successful.

But I do have the problem that there are still a lot of wron characters in the text. If I run the convert tool again it shows me "The database is set to UTF-8.".

What can I do to convert the characters and not only the collation?

Try converting to utf8mb4 instead. This adds other characters that the regular utf8 does not.

Here you will need to submit a ticket in the clients center.

13 hours ago, smithydee1991 said:

How 2 fix this:  Got error 190 "Incompatible key or row definition between the MariaDB .frm file and the information in the storage engine. You have to dump an" from storage engine MyISAM 
/home/klubscen/public_html/magic/system/Db/Db.php::1398

Did you follow this step?

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Step One.

1st, Download and run Get Ready For IPS 4.0 1.0.3 to test your current install to see if it is in fact ready. you can get your copy here. http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/7046-get-ready-for-ips-40/
OK! all is green and good to go then skip the next step and continue on.
But you are showing errors that need to be fixed. OK it's not the end of the world so there is no need to find a cliff or skyscraper to jump from. Download and run IPS UTF8 Database Converter 1.1.13 you can get it here. http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/6823-ips-utf8-database-converter/
Run the converter and let it do its thing, it will take a while. When this is finished re run Get Ready For IPS 4.0 1.0.3 to make sure all previous errors are fixed. If so we can go forward if not now you can find that cliff or skyscraper. NO Just Kidding!!! But you may want contact support with any errors.
 

17 hours ago, EarthDog said:

Did a fast test upgrade from 4.0.13.1 -> 4.1 Everythign seems ok. just one thing i noticed and researching.

If i have a toplevel menu item with no childs i need to click 2 times to load the link.On first click it just enables the tab...This is good if you have sub menu items .But what if you dont?

Actually that sounds like a bug.

If I am not mistaken that bug was fixed either in 4.0.13 or 4.0.13.1.

There was also a patch or two put out by @bfarber on this a few months back in the Knowledge base.

1 hour ago, Ibragim Pupkevich said:

Hi buddies,

That takes HOURS even on very powerful dedicated server...

Upgrading members (Upgraded so far: 65326 out of 307920)

Any idea how to speed-up this step? What does this step actually do with members?

I can't give an exact answer not knowing the size of your database really.

As far as members these are also intensely upgraded as well ie: posts, topics, images ect. to the new framework from the older structure that has not been significantly changed since 3.0 and earlier...

Where this may get even more interesting is the 4.1 upgrade when it is fully released. My 3.4.7 test upgrade took just under an hour with an 8 gig database.

Good to hear!!!!!

And Good Luck Bud!

Good Luck!

1 hour ago, ABGenc said:

I must have missed this point if it was mentioned before . My test site is a one to one copy of my prod and it was upgraded to 4.0 around 4.0.5 but I can't see anything related to it.

What should be in the config file ?

The conf_global.php is in your forum root directory.

It will look similar to this

<?php

$INFO = array (
  'sql_host' => 'localhost',
  'sql_database' => '410b2',
  'sql_user' => 'root user name',
  'sql_pass' => 'your password',
  'sql_port' => 3306,
  'sql_socket' => '',
  'sql_tbl_prefix' => '',
  'sql_utf8mb4' => true,
  'board_start' => 1444414185,
  'installed' => true,
  'base_url' => 'http://localhost/410b2/',
  'guest_group' => 2,
  'member_group' => 3,
  'admin_group' => 4,
);

sql_host - Needs to point to the exact location where the database is stored.

sql_database - Needs to point to your database

base_url - Needs to point to your URL.

Your conf_global.php may also appear to be of the previous versions but this is OK as long as the above is all your correct information

As long as you have both URL and database pointing correctly in the conf_global.php. Then yes

Ran a PM your way as well

Just now, media said:

I am still trying to get the 3.4.8 (test board) work to upgrade to 4.0

Thought you had it updated awhile back ?????

1 hour ago, media said:

Ok I know maybe it has been answered but here what I did and did not work for me

http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/ my board is right here

http://www.mywebsite.com/test/ I am duplicating board (test) right here

Changed the License with -TESTINSTALL extension version. I have created test database and changed all the variables in config file and in admin CP. Did all the recache (cache and skin and apps). Also deleted all the caches. Trying to test the test board, landing page is working but the rest (including topics, posts or apps) giving me 404 not found.

What am I doing wrong?

Also, license page after changing test install version, there is an expiration date December 10 2015 and all the apps and forum has red (not active) sign

Did you also add this to your constants.php

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define('USE_DEVELOPMENT_BUILDS', TRUE);

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/421022-version-410-beta-available/

-UPDATE-

I have just updated my 3.4.7 local test site to 4.1 beta3 with this method.

Hello @SecondSight 1st You are welcome I'm glad you enjoyed the read.

Yes this article is written to upgrade in both worlds. Localhost via Wamp, Xampp or any other local based webserver. It is also designed to be used for live server tests as well. If you are planning to do the later upgrade it will work just fine.

Have fun testing...

@media You will not need the admin Directory. Go to the bottom of the article and follow the steps in (After creating a 3.4.7 test install and all is working....).

If memory serves me correctly there was a bug reported a while back...

Being I have not created an actual 3.4 to 4.1 upgrade on my local but only a fresh install I can't say if they fixed it or not.

Tell me about it.... over 300 for me on the local....

Yes they can upgrade and bring over the avatars as well.

And Yes if you decide to do it yourself each will need to be done manually.

Unfortunately even profile images can be effected.

What I had to do here was via ACP - Members Go to each member in the Uploads - Profile directory in the root and add each one at a time.

This was a bit time consuming indeed.