Upgradation - ezpublish 3.6.x to 3.6.y

Monday 03 April 2006 4:19:03 am

Upgrading an existing/running eZ publish installation to a later version
http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/installation/upgrading
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/installation/upgrading
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/installation/upgrading/upgrading_from_3_5_2_to_3_6_0

//kracker
311 - Use of Time

Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Monday 03 April 2006 1:15:21 pm

Well,

It is a great idea, to automate the regularly manual upgrade.

It's an idea, that I'm certain others have created
solutions for already (re: eZ Network)

I'd say ... if you can write a script to get the version (number) of a eZ publish installation,
you could create a script to automate the upgrade.

I know of no existing public script which fills this need.
Suggestions from anyone else here on this subject?

//kracker
Garbage - Not My Idea ...........

Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Tuesday 04 April 2006 6:22:19 am

Hi -

I upgraded from 3.4.? with these steps.

Steps to upgrade eZ

Create database
Copy database from live site
Install eZ
Use eZ upgrade tool and phpMyAdmin to synchronize the old data to the new database structure
Set the "container" flag on the custom classes and folders for the system (manual or script)
Copy the templates from the live site, change ownership and permissions
Copy any images and data stored
Update override.ini manually
Update template priorities
Copy the stylesheets
Integrate new CMS into existing site (rename the directory)

I think you would need a fairly sophisticated script to handle the upgrade, but it could be done. All these steps took about 2 hours (the first run took 10 hours, to find all the steps).

I was really impressed with how well the upgrade went (credit goes to eZ publish), because these were complex sites.