Where do I find a conversion utility?
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Topic: Where do I find a conversion utility?
Posted By: jwright444
Subject: Where do I find a conversion utility?
Date Posted: 30 January 2004 at 10:38pm
| I see many references in this forum to a utility for upgrading an existing WebWiz installation to 7.70. I am currently at 7.0beta0. Is there a utility that I can use? If so, where do I look for it? |
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 31 January 2004 at 12:27am
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Never heard of v7.0 beta 0. What version is it that you are trying to upgrade from? ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 January 2004 at 4:38am
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There wasn't a version 7.0 beta 0. Beta versions, as it said on the download page, where for testing purposes only and not for live web sites, so there is no upgrade available , your only choice is to go through the version history file looking for database changes and make those changes to your database manually, then update all the files in your forum. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: jwright444
Date Posted: 02 February 2004 at 6:56am
Quite so. I'm at 7 beta 3. My site is not yet live, but I have been testing for a couple of months & would prefer not to lose my existing data or have to go through too much grief in the conversion. |
MadDog wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 February 2004 at 7:42am
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Version 7 beta 3 was a beta version from more than a year ago and was
never intended for live web sites as it was for testing purposes only
and had a number of bugs and security issues. Upgrading to the latest version won't be simple and it will probally be easier starting afresh with a new install of the latest version. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: jwright444
Date Posted: 02 February 2004 at 9:15am
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Thanks for the advice so far. I apologize for my ignorance, but what is likely to result if I just overwrite the v7.0beta3 files with v7.7? Is there a way to test the result without bringing down my test forum? I've found the 6-->7 conversion utility. Perhaps I could try running it in a test environment? Any suggestions welcome! |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 02 February 2004 at 9:41am
| there are database changes too.. so you will have to add/edit/remove fields in the database.. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 February 2004 at 10:20am
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If you can't use the database from the latest version go through the
version hostory text file and make the changes to the database manually.
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