Hello webmasters, developers,
As we having a pretty active forum i'd like to upgrade from 1.1.11 to 2.0 RC 4 (apparently there were some memory leaks in the 1.1 version - my vps crashed almost daily ????)
Anyway, i truly hope to be able to upgrade (or reinstall?) to RC 4.0 but i really need to keep all the messages, users, privatemessages, etc etc ... how should i do this the best way ?
Can i just do a clean install with linking to the known database ? Or should i make a new database and then import all the data ? With this new version are the friendly urls preserved as they were in 1.1 ? or will google get 404 errors ... ? I currently have some mods installed but they may just be deleted, I'll reinstalll them after the new version is put online, that's no problem.
To be short: My biggest concern is to keep all the data, but I'd prefer to delete all the old source files and start with a very fresh RC 4.0 install. Can somebody explains me how i should do this the best way ?
Thanks in advance!
Fred. (who'd like to start writing some SMF mods)
as said many times if you searched, download the large upgrade package upload all the files in it to your server and then run upgrade.php. be sure to do a database backup first in case something goes wrong. for support on your mods check their support threads and ask questions there.
Here you can see the whole upgrading process explained in detail.
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=3.0;sort=subject
thx! it worked perfectly!