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Topic: Safe upgrade procedures?
Posted By: arothman
Subject: Safe upgrade procedures?
Date Posted: 12 February 2007 at 3:24pm
I know there have been a couple of similar questions, but I wanted to be sure. :)  I've got 8.03 and I want to go up to the latest.  If I have a registered copy of the forum running, does the upgrade require me to 're-license' or does the registration info stay in place when I apply the new version?
 
Also, is there a 'patch list' that says exactly which .asp files and so forth have actually been altered in the new release so I don't overwrite the whole folder unecessarily?  I have manually altered a number of includes and other pages to fit my site's look and function, and I don't want to update and then have to go figure out exactly which parts of the forum code have been changed specifically so I can put my own changes back in.
 
Thanks!!
Drew



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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 February 2007 at 3:46pm
The upgrade doesn't require you to re-license all you need to do between minor versions like this is have a look in the Version History file that comes with the download for the changed files between the two versions and then update those file.

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Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:35pm
ALWAYS remember to backup your old installation in case there are problems.  Then you can always copy the old files back if there are problems.

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Posted By: arothman
Date Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:44pm
Yep - I got that part down!  What I really should have done is made notes about what I've gone in and modified. :P
 
Thanks!


Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:57pm
Yeah, that is useful too.

Now that WWF is more refined, I am finding less and less I need to modify, thank goodness.

I'm mostly waiting for 9.x when some major features for the calendar and image/video gallery.


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