Upgrade to 2.1.2 fails

[escc-forum]

When I try to upgrade my forum I get the following message:

"Your MySQL version does not meet the minimum requirements of SMF", it did work before...

I am with names.co.uk [nofollow] for the hosting and according to the control panel I am using version
MySQL 5.1.44

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Arantor]

SMF 2.1 requires a minimum of MySQL 5.6, released in 2013. Your version doesn't have all the features SMF 2.1 uses.

[Doug Heffernan]

Have a look at requirements and recommendations section for smf 2.1.x.

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.1:Requirements_and_recommendations

Additionally, it would be best to upgrade to 2.1.3 which is the latest version, rather than upgrading to 2.1.2.

[escc-forum]

Thanks for the reply, the hosting company tells me I need to export the database, create a new one & then import the database into it but is this necessary & in any case I neither know how to do this & there is no option in the control panel of my hosting company to do this...

[Kindred]

go to phpmyadmin choose export

however... your host (or any host worth the money you pay) should be willing to either do it or walk you through it