aC forum: Errors when upgrading and moving to new db/site.

Post #18 by shacker

shacker — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:19:56 UTC

Ah! The distribution I downloaded does not have an index.php , init.php, or version,php . I'm guessing this is why nothing is working. But why would the distribution not include those critical files?

Post #17 by shacker

shacker — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:17:51 UTC

I can live without the old files (though I would eventually like to get these moved over, if possible, but not a huge deal for now). I just need a way to get 1.0 working - right now all I get is an apache listing of folders, no prompt to run an upgrade, no interface, no documentation or instructions on upgrading... nothing.

Honestly, I'm kind of shocked that this is the user experience I'm getting with a paid product!

Post #16 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:14:58 UTC

Hi,

Old upgrade instructions do not work for v1.0. We have a module developed for this, but currently it has one big flaw - it cannot move files from the old setup (files from Files section and attachments). When we fix this issue we'll release the upgrade module. If you don't need to move the old files than development version of the module will do just fine. Just let us know...

Thank you!

Post #15 by shacker

shacker — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:02:42 UTC

After purchase, I received a link to installation instructions, but no upgrade instructions. It would be EXTREMELY helpful to provide upgrade instructions alongside the install instructions (as is standard practice).

Trying to figure out how to manage the upgrade safely by reading through forum posts is confusing, as it references things like public/upgrade, while my "public" folder does not include an "upgrade" subfolder.

Post #14 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:11:45 UTC

Autoloader is completely dropped from new framework. Few months of use shown that it cause more problems than good. It makes sense using it while developing, but in production it caused only problems.

Post #13 by mwr

mwr — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:26:09 UTC

The last couple of days, I've been trying to migrate my 0.7.1 site from the root folder of one server to a subfolder of a second server. One snag I ran into was in autoloader.php -- it's full of hardcoded paths to various php files. Before I edited that file, the main index.php page always returned 0 bytes. Afterwards, everything worked fine.

Perhaps autoloader.php could be modified to use the ROOT variable defined in init.php for finding the files it needs?

Post #12 by mi2

mi2 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:16:54 UTC

Thanks TDS and Ilija! I'll need to try with you tips tomorrow. It sounds manageable. Appreciate you use the "regular English" instructions, as I may not be able to understand the "programer English. =P

Hope I can get it all set.

Post #11 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:04:37 UTC

TDS provided a good instructions. Just to clear things up about this: Run the update script.

If you are moving 0.7RC1 you do not need to run an upgrade script. If you are moving 0.6 that haven't been upgraded on old location than you need to run upgrade script.

Hope this makes sense.

Post #10 by TDS

TDS — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:33:16 UTC

Thanks mi2 for the extra info,

I'm sure ilija can answer you better, but...

You'll need to first get a copy of your database - so you'll need access to phpMyAdmin (or similar) on your server.

Select your activeCollab database from site 1 then select the Export option. I normally export as SQL in a zip file downloaded to my computer.

Then create your new database on site 2. Then select Import in phpMyAdmin which will load in your database.

Then upload all the files for v0.7 rc1 onto site 2.

Copy your old config file and all files in the public/files folder to site 2.

Modify the config file to point to the newly created database on site 2. Also change the site location in the config file.

Run the update script.

Fingers crossed!

Post #9 by mi2

mi2 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:19:08 UTC

okay!! This is what I'm trying to do:

move from www.myactivecollab1.com to www.myactivecollab2.com

activecollab1 was .6 in site1 DB

And I hope to have activecollab2 in .7 in site 2 DB

All same server but with separate DB.

Would it be easier if I start fresh and create a new DB(sub?) in site2??

I'm not really a programmer so I'm not sure what other details you need. Please explain or ask me questions so I can answer them and have you try to help me. =)

Thanks
mi2