Upgrading VB4 to VB5

[Spangle]

I've read through the upgrade instructions a couple of times, but I'm a little bit confused.

My present VB installing is installed directly to the root, (public_html)

In the upgrade instructions it says to install to a folder mysite/vb5/....

This will mess up my URL's though, because the new site home page will be something like ...mysite/vb5/forum.php

Once installed can I move it to the public_html folder or will that just totally mess things up ?

I'm really confused how to go about doing this, it just seems a complicated way to do an upgrade.

If there are any volunteers out there I'd appreciate some help

[ozzy47]

Why on earth do you want to go to vB5?

[Spangle]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Why on earth do you want to go to vB5?

I have a VERY small forum, and after playing with it, I prefer the way I can set up home page very easily with the modules and widgets.

I don't seem to be able to do that with VB4, at least not in a way I can understand or carry out.

[Lynne]

You do not need to install it in a directory, you may install it in the root. However, you need to make sure that ONLY vB5 files are in the root or things can get messed up.

[ForceHSS]

You would be best to try this on a test server first. But if I was you I would stay with vb4 to many bugs with vb5 still

[Lynne]

As said above, you should ALWAYS try out a new version on a test install first in order to get familiar with the software and figure out if it is the right thing for your site.