From RC2 to 1.05 - Some guidance is needed

[H-kon]

I am planning to upgrade my RC2 forum to the latest version later today, but to be honest, i have not followed these boards that much and i really do not know if there is anything that i should know of before i upgrade. I have read the upgrade thread and i think i could do what is laid out there. The problem is that if something unforeseen happen, i would not have the first clue where to begin.   I am generally a "if it works, don't fix it" and RC2 has worked great so far, although my forum is tiny (26 members, 3500 posts). The php 4.40 issue is what is bothering me as i am sure my host will upgrade pretty soon.

Also - My knowledge of PHP is minimal - at best.

Now, i am going to start the conversion in 5 hours or so - Could anyone please hold my hand while i do this?  I lost everything once with PHP-Nuke thanks to the exploit discussed a year or so ago everywhere which is what drove me to SMF, and i really do not want to lose everything again.  ( Lost everything, including 5K posts). I have completely fallen in Love with this forum and i am waiting for a front page module so that i can get rid of wordpress.

Thank you for reading this

[H-kon]

One thing that i do not understand is if i can install 1.05 right away or if i have to install other updates before applying the final 1.05 update 

[xenovanis]

Download the updatepackage, unzip it to your local hard drive, use ftp to upload the files to your forumlocation on server, overwriting the existing ones, and run upgrade.php.

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/upgrade.php

Remember that if you have any languages installed other than english you'll need to upload the new languagefiles as well, before you can proceed with the upgrade.

[H-kon]

I did as you told me, and everything seems to work great so far. No error messages, but then my forum is just about the default rc2 settings. (hxxp:forums.h-kon.net [nonactive])

I am amazed how simple it was to do this. I thought i had to spend hours doing the upgrade.

Thanks a bunch for the help - a stone is lifted from my shoulders now.

thanks!

[xenovanis]

Now you know why it's called Simple Machines  . Glad it worked out for you.