Need advice before upgrading to 2.0.x

[BGH]

Hello,

I've been running my SMF 1.1.x forum for more than 3 years, and I decided that it's time to upgrade to 2.0.x. So, I am currently working on my local server with a SMF 2.0.2 forum, a custom theme and some mods installed (very few). On the other hand, in my SMF 1.1.x forum, from the beginning to this time, I've installed/uninstalled a large bunch of mods and added a lot of custom code; currently I have 38 mods, with the other customizations I made.

So, I want to upgrade, and I want a SMF 2.0.x CLEAN upgrade, without ANY traces of the mods and code I have made for my SMF 1.1.16 forum, in order to install my working SMF 2.0.2 forum.

What would be the "logical steps" to make this happen? Would be something like this?

Step 0 - Backup database/SMF forum files
Step 1 - Upgrade database
Step 2 - Upgrade SMF forum files
Step 3 - Replace the initial files from the upgrade, with my SMF 2.0.2 (themes, mods, etc).

I'd appreciate some advice here, before I work my path to the SMF 2 branch

Thanks in advance!

PS: English is not my native language, so forgive me if I made any mistakes.

[Marcus Forsberg]

Hey there,

Basically, yes, the steps you listed seem only logical to me. Make a backup, and then run the large upgrade to SMF 2.0.2 (found on the download site). Then grab the files from your local test site and replace the files from the upgrade. Be careful , though, you *don't* want to overwrite settings.php when you move your local site to your newly upgraded site. That file contains all the basic settings for your forum and overwriting it would just cause you extra trouble.

Good luck!

[BGH]

Thanks for the quick answer, Marcus.

So after doing all of this, wouldn't remain any traces of my mods in SMF 1.1.x in my new upgrade?

[Marcus Forsberg]

That is correct. The database will be re-created using SMF 2.0's format but with all your vital data saved - No custom tables added by mods in 1.1.x will be saved. All files will be fresh 2.0 files with no traces of the file edits made to 1.1.x files. You'll get a brand new forum but with all your old members, posts, topics, logs, and all other data just as it was

[BGH]

Awesome!

Thank you so much for your support, Marcus!

I'll mark this issue as solved now, because I didn't finish my work yet, so I'll not upgrade soon; just needed to take these questions out of my chest. But if there is a problem during the upgrade I'll make a new support topic.

Thanks again

[Marcus Forsberg]

My pleasure, have fun and good luck again!