how to do upgration from ez 3.3-2 to 4.x version ?

Friday 25 July 2008 12:05:38 am

Documentation on how to upgrade any version of eZ Publish can be found here: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgrading

As with every older version in the 3.x branch of eZ Publish you first need to upgrade to 3.10 in order to upgrade to 4.0.

Keep in mind that eZ Publish 4 requires php 5. In your case this means your custom code also needs to be php 5 ready (references!).

Good luck!

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Friday 25 July 2008 10:09:36 pm

hi
i dont know what kind of custom code is here . may be hacks , i think so .
i have downloaded now 3.3-2 and also 4.0 version to do analysis .
but i m failed to install both .

3.3-2 version gives me error
Cannot re-assign $this in C:\AppServ\www\ez3\lib\ezutils\classes\ezdebug.php on line 192
$this =& eZDebug::instance();

and when i installed version 4.0 then it said ..strftime() function error . date and time zone settings error

so , how i can upgrade , so my custom code remains safe , plz

Tuesday 29 July 2008 11:13:27 am

Hi guys,

The problem is realt and actual. Is there no project for implementing the migration on ez 3.x version to 4.x ?
I think if the project was launched, many could contribute for.

Thanks

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Saturday 09 August 2008 11:46:51 am

Hi Norman,

I think you can help me,

In 3.6.1 version, I imported two classes from some other install but same version. So there were two classes, and another site style which I imported from my development pc, there were three packages...

This week I tried upgrading 3.6.1 to 4.0.0 with the following steps:

3.6.1. -> 3.8.0
3.8.0 -> 3.9.0
3.9.0 -> 3.10.0

After the upgrading to 3.10.0, the whole public and adminstration sites are working.

Two problems:

1. No packages in the Setup-> Packages....
2. In the Design -> Look and Feel section there is no sitestyle thumbnail.

Hope fully you can help me here.....

What about upgrade from 3.10.0 to 4.0.0 go well??? Any thing specific to be taken care of? Do I need to run again updateniceurls.php and udatetipafriendpolicy.php while upgrading??

In the documentation it not recommended to upgrade from 3.10.0 -> 4.0.0, insisting to wait for 4.0.1.

Cheers

Monday 11 August 2008 1:07:06 am

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your kind help. Few clarifications please....

<i>>> 1. Please use latest version of a branch when you update, minor versions are bug fix versions.</i>

So do you mean the process should be:

3.6.1 to 3.8.10
3.8.10 to 3.9.5
3.9.5 to 3.10.1
3.10.1 to 4.0.0 (as 4.0.1 is not released yet).

Actually I just followed the chart on the following url.

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgrading/releases

<i>>> 2. site style is a package as well, did you remember to copy over the packages in the var folder? (var/storage/packages)</i>

I checked the ez3.6.1 install, the packages are in var/news/storage/packages not in the var/storage/packages, but in the new installs 3.6.1 upwards the packages are in var/storage/packages. During upgrading I just copied the whole var folder. Do you want me to copy or move the packages into var/storage/packages? Please clarify this point.

What about upgrading 3.10.0 to 4.0.0, is it safe to do as in the documentation it is not recommeded. Any approx date for releasing stable 4.0.1???

I can't wait as the servers are getting upgraded. Last in the documentation regarding upgrade from 3.10.0 to 4.0.0, there is again an addition of scripts like updateniceurls.php and updatetipafriendpolicy.php, do i need to run them again as the part of upgrade in 3.10.0 to 4.0.0.

Cheers

Smith

Monday 11 August 2008 2:03:52 am

<i>>> If it worked for you, don't change anything, I just mentioned it because they are sometimes more stable. </i>

Ok Cheers, it worked upto 3.10.0, only with the problem regarding the packages and sitestyle thumbnails mentioned above.

<i>>>>Do try that.</i>

Move or copy?

Sorry missed, you already written copy. cheers.

Monday 11 August 2008 3:49:50 am

> In the documentation you guys wrote to ignore and do it while upgrading from 3.10.0 to 4.0.0

If you are upgrading to eZ Publish 4.0, then you should skip that step when you upgrade from 3.9 to 3.10.

I do not know why your look and feel have two locations, couldn't you just remove the second one(in Setup)?

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Monday 11 August 2008 6:52:02 am

> Ignoring massive warning and the urls being converted into numbers breaking all the links??

Yes the 2 minutes you have 3.10 running and are about to upgrade to 4.0.
In your case (running 3.10 until you feel comfortable upgrading to 4.0 ), you should never have skipped that step.

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Wednesday 13 August 2008 6:06:28 am

Anyone please???

Tuesday 19 August 2008 2:50:57 am

hi Łukasz,

</i>>> Hi, you can actually use script provided with 4.0.1rc2 which is stored in bin\php\ezconvertdbcharset.php which do conversion. Run it with --help param to get more info.

Using that script should be easy to make conversion. </i>

I copied the script from 4.0.1rc2 into my ez4.0 installation...

Running the script gives me the following errors:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method eZContentClassAttributeNameList::cleanNameList() in /usr/local/home/httpd/vhtdocs/<dir name>/bin/php/ezconvertdbcharset.php on line 391

Fatal error: eZ Publish did not finish its request
The execution of eZ Publish was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.

Is there anything which i am missing???

The script I ran:

<path to php5> bin/php/ezconvertdbcharset.php

Please help.