Updating from a 1.8 backup directly to a 1.9 install?
Hello!
I have a semi broken 1.8 install (suddenly the majority of groups and content disappeared, not sure why but I suspect it might have something to do with me having updated a "Hostgator quickinstall" installation manually, although that was working fine for several months).
Anyways... so I have a backup of the site before the issues happend, i.e. a 1.8 .sql dump, a copy of the content directory and a copy of the public_html directory and I am thinking to directly update to Elgg 1.9 with it.
Preferably while having the original still somewhat working Elgg 1.8 install still online in a different subdirectory until the new site is fully working.
Would I need to do a new full 1.8 install first and then go through the regular update procedure, or is there some way to just point a new 1.9 install to an existing database and content directory without losing anything?
Thanks for the help and sorry if that question is a bit newbie like ;)
- Juho Jaakkola@juho.jaakkola
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- Krischan@krischan
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- Juho Jaakkola@juho.jaakkola
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You must log in to post replies.Yes, you can just edit the engine/settings.php of 1.9 to point to an existing database.
If location of the datadir or the site URL are not the same, you must update them as instructed here: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Duplicate_Installation#Database_Entries
Ok great, thanks for the quick reply. I guess I'll give it a try then.
Remember to keep a backup of everything in case something goes wrong during the upgrade.