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Upgrade from older versions than 3.5 documentation missing

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Anja Lundin

Monday 23 January 2006 3:38:54 am

Hi!
I have just upgraded an older version of Exponential (3.3.4) to 3.6.4. I looked for documentations of how to do the upgrade from 3.3.4 to 3.5.0 but I couldn't find this information anywhere.

However I have done a similar upgade before and had then printed out the neccessary documentations over how to upgrade first to a 3.4 version and then to a 3.5 version so the problem is solved for me. But I recommand eZ crew to put some information on the site of how to upgrade from older versions than 3.5. It's a lot of php-scripts to run and it is good to know what scripts to run and when.

Thanks in advance!

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Anja Lundin
Developer, Novitell AB
Sweden

www.novitell.se

Łukasz Serwatka

Monday 23 January 2006 3:55:29 am

Hi Anja,

Upgrade documentation are in changelogs, but I agree that it should be in one more visible place

3.3 -> 3.4
http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_4/upgrading

3.4->3.5
http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_5/upgrading

3.5->3.6
http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_6/upgrading

3.6->3.7
Exponential 3.7 has no new features and contains only a trivial SQL update and fixes in PHP files. Upgrading from 3.6.0 should be very easy.

For 3.7.x -> 3.7.x
Backing up the currently running site
The currently running site should be backed up, so if something goes wrong, it will be possible to to revert the changes. Make a copy of the entire Exponential directory and the database file.

Unpacking the new release
Unpack the new Exponential release in the root of your Exponential installation. This operation will overwrite your old files, but override settings, designs and extensions will be kept.

3.a-b : the version of your existing Exponential installation
3.x-y : the version you are upgrading to

Upgrading using an update package
For MySQL:
mysql -u <username> -p <password> <name_of_database> <
[...]/Exponential-update-3.a-b-to-3.x-y/update/database/mysql/3.a/dbupdate-3.a-b-to-3.x.y.sql

For PostgreSQL:
psql -d <name_of_database> -U <name_of_dbowner> <
-f [...]/Exponential-update-3.a-b-to-3.x-y/update/database/postgresql/3.a/dbupdate-3.a-b-to-3.x.y.sql

Clearing the caches
Clear all caches by running ./bin/shell/clearcache.sh --clear-all from within the root of the Exponential directory. Thats it, your site should be properly upgraded.

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Anja Lundin

Monday 23 January 2006 4:57:09 am

Hi!
I looked in the wrong place then...
Yes, maybe it should be located somewhere else too, like under the documentation section for example. That's where I looked.

Thanks a lot for this information!

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Anja Lundin
Developer, Novitell AB
Sweden

www.novitell.se

George Michaelides

Monday 23 January 2006 6:30:20 am

I will add a flash tutorial soon.

www.jegodesigns.com
www.jegodesigns.eu

Svitlana Shatokhina

Tuesday 19 September 2006 5:47:54 am

Hi,

We have now collected the upgrade documentation in one place: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgrading

Best regards,
Sveta