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Hello,

Though I know my way around Geeklog, i've never had to upgrade it before. Others have always taken care of this for me.

I am running GL 1.4 on my personal site and I am in dire need of upgrading it to at least 1.5+. Though I have been advised by others that I should just use 1.6rc2, which is fine with me.

Though I am confused to what this means in the docs.



What does "back into their place" mean? I know the templates/css are going to be screwed with this upgrade, but I don't want to have to go through the DB and adjust a bunch of config settings if the config file isn't in the correct place.

Thanks for any help.

-gdl

http://www.gdl3d.com/manage/

It means "the places where the config.php files used to be in 1.4.1".

I.e. the main config.php goes into /path/to/geeklog (next to the new db-config.php file) and the config.php files for the plugins go into the plugin directories: /path/to/geeklog/plugins/calendar/, /path/to/geeklog/plugins/links/, and so on.

bye, Dirk

Thanks for your quick reply dirk.

Are you saying that after I have uploaded the new version of Geeklog 1.6 to the server, I am to place the old config files in the "new" geeklog public_html and plugin directories so that the script can read it upon install?

Yes.

Not in public_html, though. I said next to db-config.php (not siteconfig.php, which is in public_html).

The install script will read the old config files during the upgrade. If it can't find them, it will use default values.

bye, Dirk

Never mind. I know where you are talking about putting the config.php file. In the main GL directory, not in public_html. edit: thanks for clarifying that. :wink:

Guess i am confused about the replacement of my previous installation. I have uploaded v 1.6rc2 to the server and I have placed the old config.php file in the new main GL directory next to the db-config.php.

My old geeklog installation is in gdl3d.com/httpdocs/manage

The new directory is gdl3d.com/httpdocs/geeklog-1.6.0rc2.

Am I to delete the old "manage" directory and just rename the new geeklog-1.6.0rc2 directory to manage before or after installation?

Thanks for you help.

-gdl

Yeah, I'd put the new files in the same place as before (or delete + rename, as you said).

bye, Dirk

Thanks again for the hand holding Dirk. I should be upgrading today. I'll report back after I have the theme customized.

-gdl