Upgrade questions
 

Hi everyone,

I've been contemplating to upgrade my board to the latest version...and also applying the security patch.

Currently, I'm running 4.1.0 patch level 2...

My concern is with website structure.
I want to know, if I update, will everything go back to Vb default settings, and default layout?!

I have customized various objects, so will the site change?
(these include vbulletin.css, forumdisplay.css, forumhome.css, etc.) --- SEE ATTACHMENT

If so, is there anyway (after the upgrade) to have everything revert back to how my site looks like now?

Let me know...
Thank you all.

P.S, I downloaded the customized style (.xml file w/ child settings)...so after I update, can I just upload that style and be set to go???

I'd like to know this too.

bump.

Also, Vb is reporting an SQL error periodically....with regard to cartplog.php
I use Magento for my shop, so are the files related? or cartplog was most likely installed/uninstalled?
So can I just delete it and get the error over with?!

Kharam, why don't you create yourself a test site and apply the update there and test the functionality of your website.

Article : https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/cont...ng-A-Test-Site

If you are using a style that is not the default one It's 100% sure it will be exactly as it is after the upgrade, but If you made changes to the default one then I don't really know what to tell you, I've never used the default vb style for my forum or even made changes to it ( on vb 4.x ). However, I would recommend you to upgrade your forum since the new patches fix some security issues from the older version.

So, I recommend you to do the following:

1.- backup all your forum FTP files
2.- backup your forum's database.
3.- upgrade.

If the upgrade doesn't goes as you expected you can then restore your database and re-upload the backup FTP files.

Good Luck !