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#1 2006-10-17 23:36:37

Alex

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From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Upgrade from an extremely old version

One of my sites is running an extremely old version of textpattern, and I’d like to upgrade it.

It’s so old that:

• it doesn’t show any version number anywhere; (update: it appears to be b1.6.1!)
• the copyright statements are all 2003;
• the table names are all txp_Foo, i.e. with a capital letter after the underscore;
• the txp_prefs table has one row with a new field for each preference item.

I tried the auto-upgrade in 4.0.4, but it went pear-shaped in a variety of interesting ways. Can anyone give me some pointers on what version this is, and how I might go about upgrading it?

There are close to 400 articles, so copying and pasting isn’t really an option. :)

Thanks!

Last edited by Alex (2006-10-17 23:38:16)

#2 2006-10-17 23:45:23

jm

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Re: Upgrade from an extremely old version

Perhaps you could upgrade incrementally with older versions, if 4.0.4 doesn’t work? If you don’t have that much content, I’d start with a clean 4.0.4 install and repost. If you use a local server (like Uniform Server or XAMPP) first, it’ll go by quickly. Then login to PHPMyAdmin and export the database, and upload to your live site. I’ve never upgraded from an old release before, so I don’t know.

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#3 2006-10-17 23:48:23

Alex

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Re: Upgrade from an extremely old version

jm wrote:

Perhaps you could upgrade incrementally with older versions, if 4.0.4 doesn’t work?

Thanks for the pointer, I was looking for those oldies. Unfortunately this site is even older than what the 1.0 update.php can handle. :)

Last edited by Alex (2006-10-17 23:48:44)

#4 2006-10-18 00:00:37

michaelkpate

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Re: Upgrade from an extremely old version

I upgraded a site from g1.19 to 4.0 back last year. That worked fine. And that might be an upgrade path if someone still has a copy of that lying around somewhere.

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#5 2006-10-18 00:25:51

Alex

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From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Re: Upgrade from an extremely old version

michaelkpate wrote:

I upgraded a site from g1.19 to 4.0 back last year. That worked fine. And that might be an upgrade path if someone still has a copy of that lying around somewhere.

Thanks… This is even pre-gamma. :)

I’ve managed to import the articles with mysqldump and %s/\\\\\\’/\\’/g, so I think I’ll stick with the piecemeal manual migration for now. :)