Hi,
I tried upgrading from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6 by following the instructions in UPGRADE.txt which came with the 1.8.6 release.
While running the upgrade.php, I provided the credentials for the existing 1.8.5 elgg database. Then I've got the warning that that database is not empty and if I want to use it, I should get rid off the database step related part of the URL. I chose to use this database (expecting database contents to be upgraded to 1.8.6 - after all this is an upgrade and I do NOT want to start with an empty db) and removed the db step part from URL. But then suddenly I ended up with the login screen of 1.8.5 (in the URL it turned to 1.8.5).
Any ideas what I may have done wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help...
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You must log in to post replies.It sounds like you may have deleted your settings.php - which is not part of the upgrade procedure. Then elgg went through its installation script instead.
Thanks Matt for your reply. Actually I have not deleted settings.php. All I did was to place the 1.8.6 files in the htdocs directory, modify the htaccess_dis to .htaccess and then run the upgrade.php.
I do now realize that I have placed 1.8.6 as a separate new directory, rather than overwriting the existing 1.8.5 fies. Could that be the cause?
Regards
yes that's definitely the cause it's the equivalent of deleting the settings.php
Because you put it in a separate directory, it couldn't find a settings.php relative to the new directory.
Remove all files except your settings.php from the existing directory and unzip > upload new version to that.
Its better to have a backup first.
Indeed.. Had I said I had followed the instructions in the UPGRADE.txt? Textbook user mistake...
Thanks Matt! Thank you for your help.
Best Regards.
@Team Webgalli Thanks!