From 3.8.6 to 4.0.1 : classic upgrade or another solution ?

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Sébastien Antoniotti

Friday 14 November 2008 8:23:31 am

Hi !

I have an "old" website running on eZ Publish 3.8.6 that I want to upgrade to the last 4.x version.

This website isn't translated and he just has 1 public siteaccess and 1 admin siteaccess.

He contains 2500 content objects and no custom extensions/contribs.

I'm afraid about doing this upgrade : 3.8.6 to 3.9.0 to 3.10.x to 4.0.1 because I fear that the version obtained is unstable because of strong evolutions between 3.8.6 and 4.0.1.

Do you think it is better to go through another way of export from 3.8.6 / and re-import into 4.0.1 ?

Thanks in advance !

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web : http://www.webaxis.fr

Greg McAvoy-Jensen

Friday 14 November 2008 10:44:01 am

I'd go with the "classic upgrade", being sure to use 3.10.1 rather than 3.10.0. The other route would probably be more time consuming.

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Sébastien Antoniotti

Friday 14 November 2008 12:46:51 pm

Hi Greg,

Ok, so 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 => 4.0.1 like as recomended here http://ez.no/doc/layout/set/full/ez_publish/upgrading/images/ez_publish_releases

And doing 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 and 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 with PHP4 and 3.10.1 => 4.0.1 with PHP5 ?

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Radek Kuchta

Saturday 15 November 2008 1:19:51 am

Hi Sébastien,

I have already made two successfull upgrades from 3.8.x to 4.0.1

If you want to upgrade your existing eZ Publish 3.8.x installation to version 3.9.x, it is recommended to upgrade <b>directly</b> to the latest stable release in the 3.9 branch - which is 3.9.5

http://ez.no/certification/verify/272582

Sébastien Antoniotti

Saturday 15 November 2008 4:40:47 am

Hi,

Ok, I have done the 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 upgrade with success but the 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 fails. So I have to try 3.9.0 => 3.9.5 before 3.9.5 => 3.10.1.

Just a question : before to run sql scripts, whe have to copy the following directory in order to keep custom settings, design and var :

design/example
design/example_admin
var
settings/siteaccess
settings/override

But, prior to run the system upgrade scripts, did we have to configure the site.ini to work with the new database recently upgraded ?

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Radek Kuchta

Saturday 15 November 2008 7:33:31 am

I was configure a new settings (with database settings and so on) before any step of upgrading.

Btw, if I good remember I have mede upgrade from 3.8.6 directyly to 3.9.5 (not to 3.9.0) - but I'm not sure at 100%.

http://ez.no/certification/verify/272582

Sébastien Antoniotti

Saturday 15 November 2008 8:11:42 am

It's ok, upgrade done with success from 3.8.6 to 4.0.1 passing by 3.9.0 and 3.10.1.

Thanks all !

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web : http://www.webaxis.fr

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