Upgrade questions

New Member Joined: Oct 03, 2004 Posts: 13

im going to finally upgrade my site's nuke installation to something more recent
i currently have:
nuke 6.9 w/ some random patches
phpbb 2.0.5

what is my best plan of action for this upgrade? and should i used the patch 7.7 from nukeresources?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

If your site is not heavily modded and you can add those mod's w/o too much trouble, then I would recommend:

- Backup your entire site and databases.
- Delete ALL your site files.
- FTP the files for the version that you want to use.
- FTP the latest patches for the version that you used in the previous step.
- Update the config.php file with your MySQL settings from your old site. Do not attempt to just use your old config.php file as there are changes in the later releases.
- From the upgrades folder in the version you are just installed, copy every single upgrade file from 6.9-7.0 ... 7.x-7.x to your root nuke folder, where config.php is located. Then, execute each one, in order.
- Next, in the modules/Forums folder, execute the files update_to_205.php - update_to_210.php.
- Then, to upgrade to 2.0.15, I believe you can get those from Chatserv's site.

I think I have covered everything but don't hesitate to question me ROTFL

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 1:10 pm

thanks for the reply

that all sounds good, but i was just wondering about this installer: http://nukeresources.com/download-file-1006.html

it says it can upgrade from 6.9 to 7.7, would that be a one step thing or the same as you described above?

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 1:13 pm

I entirely forgot about that!! You still have to ftp all the files Smile

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 1:47 pm

so, just to make sure, i...

backup my entire site and database
delete all my current files
ftp the nukeresources patched 7.7 and the installer i linked to
update config.php

is there anything else as far as the forums or the nuke update or is that covered by the installer?

oh and another question, i have a number of themes available for use on my site, and obviously many users use different themes, what happens if i do not re-upload these themes for the new installation, and users have them selected for use?

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 5:13 pm

A missing user theme will automatically default to your default theme in Preferences.

I don't believe the nuke resources patched contains all the files. The last I knew, Chat only provides the patched files, not the originals. So, you would ftp the virgin version that you are going to use and then ftp the patches over them. Then run the installer to upgrade the database.

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 7:01 pm

ok, thanks, ill let you know how it goes

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 2:40 am

upgrade went fine, thanks again

now to fix nextgen...

Worker Joined: Feb 06, 2004 Posts: 147

Does Nextgen need to re-intalled after a Nuke Upgrade? Any suggestion on how to mimize troubles for getting NextGen to work after an upgrade from 7.4 to 7.6?

Thanks

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:23 pm

It doesn't have to be reinstalled although the url's may have changed and you would need to adjust those.

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:29 pm

Thanks Raven. I am always nervous with upgrades, however, after reading your suggestions for upgrading, I think I will be ok.