Upgrade to vb4 - is this possible?

[Yangster]

Hi all,

Is it possible to do the following...

I have already upgraded a copy of my site in a different directory... i.e. my normal vb version 3.8 resides in the 'forum' directory and I copied everything and made a copy of the database and configured a copy of the entire site in a 'newsite' directory.... so what I am asking is as I did all of this several days ago the data on my 'newsite' is obviously out of date but I have made adjustments to all the templates in the newsite as that is running vb4.0.4 is it possible to close the live site, backup the database, make a copy of it and configure the newsite to use it and then just run the upgrade again therefore keeping the template mods etc that I have already made?

Or do I have to do everything again?

[eSekar]

yes it's possible

close you site
just backup your "live" database (better keep a backup on your hard disk)
change your config.php database name, username etc.. to connect to the "live" one
disable all products/mods from your Admin CP
better to set the default style as your site style too
then run your upgrade just the way you did when you upgraded the outdated database

all should be okay.

Good luck.

[ChopSuey]

better to set the default style as your site style too


It automatically sets to vB4 default style after a succesful upgrade and or fresh install.

[eSekar]

Thanks for the info mate, didn't know that ^

[Yangster]

Done that and get the following error even though I unistalled the vbseo before upgrading..

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in [path]/includes/functions_vbseo_seo.php on line 63

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions_vbseo_seo.php on line 64
vBulletin Message
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/talkangl/public_html/newsite/includes/class_core.php
Line: 4495

Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0

Any help would be appreciated.

Simon

[ChopSuey]

Disable all hooks via config.php haha.