I'm Skeered!

Okay, after seeing all the problems people are having and posting after upgrading from 7.0.4 to 7.0.5, I'm really afraid to do this upgrade! I have a purchased template and several mods installed and as hard as I worked to get them in and working, this upgrade scares me! Any advice? Thanks!

First of all

Be sure the mods you have installed are not on the  default dolphin files.

If you have done some modifications on some default dolphin files, the mods won't work.

Be also sure the programmers have the updated versions.

The upgrade process is simple.

You have just to follow the instructions line per line.

Make a backup of your site!!!!!!

If something goes wrong restore that!

Thanks! Made a backup yesterday!

One question: Should I turn off the mods and switch back to the UNI template before up grading?

Make sure all mods you have work on 7.0.5. Ask the developer if not sure.

Some mods that change source of core dolphin files, or modify default dolphin database tables can cause some upgrade problems, but it's rare. Most of the time it's a simple matter of reapplying those mods after the update is done.

From my experience most problems occur by failure to verify that all uploaded files from the patch have actually been replaced. If even one file from the patch fails to over write the existing one, then dolphin will have problems. I have a decent FTP client that clearly tells me when a file failed to upload. Some FTP clients don't make this quite as obvious. But uploading the zip file to the server in the root for dolphin and unpacking via cpanal usually avoids this problem.

The other issue that is common is failure to follow the final instructions at the end of the upgrade that has to be done manually.

I never have with my site. I don't think it will make a difference. I have never had a failed upgrade.

in addition to what YL says, make sure that you backup your database as well. not sure how you created the backup, if it was from cpanel, then great, however, know that you cannot use that backup for a restore. you need to physically have a copy of your file structure backed up as well as your database.

if you have 3rd party modules installed, make sure that they are all 7.0.5 compatible. overall the upgrade should be painless, but for sanity sake, make sure you have the most current file structure and database backed up.

Okay, thanks all, I'm gonna try this! I get nervous because I'm prone to make really stupid mistakes!! Here we go....

I'm also about to attempt this upgrade. I have made a cpanel backup but what do you mean by "physical copy"? What do I do?

Also in the instructions there is mention about language files. I have ru installed as second language. Do I understand the instructions correctly to mean I copy every existing ru file to every module in upgrade folder before commencing the upgrade?

Wouldn't it be simpler to just re-install the ru module from scratch again?

what do i mean by physical copy. when you make a backup from cPanel, it copies your cPanel account, but you are not able to upload that back to the server, the server admin would need to do that, if you have SSH and root access, or whm with /home /home2 or direct path where cPanel writes its backups, then you would have to drop the user account, recreate it and restore from the backup.tar file

so what you do is go into cpanel, file manager, public_html (assuming this is root of your dolphin site and its not in some addon domain or subdomain) use the select all, then you will see an icon in the menu for cpanel file manager that says compress. this will give you the option to zip or tar or gz or at least should, use tar if you have that option, because zip has proven in the past to lose its permissions associations.

once you have it tar'd up, then download it via ftp. then go to phpmyadmin and select the database that is currently running your site. using the export feature from phpmyadmin, you can dump your entire database, now on this one you can opt for the zip format if its available. also you will see that there is a file size limit on phpmyadmin which is relative to the import feature most times.

i use a tool called mysql administrator you can set a remote connection for your IP address to make a remote connection to mysql, which gets around the phpmyadmin file limit, this application mysql administrator will allow you to run a backup and also set scheduled backups, then it will also allow you to do an import. handy tool indeed.

hope my rambling didnt take you off course.

Thanks DosDawg. I think I got the gist of it.

I'll do this step tomorrow.

Thanks for the info, I need to find an easy way to have a parallel test website and easily switch to live.

What I am doing today is creating a backup. First in D7 admin doing a DB backup structure and content to the sever

in D7 backups folder, then I do a .tar of full D7 folder copied to separate backup folder on the server.

I have managed to restore by extracting to another D7test folder and importing DB in a fresh empty DB using phpmyadmin, then I changed the /inc/header.inc.php for root directory and database connection.

So it works except for :

orca Mydolphinroot/forum/ where I get 404 Not Found ?

photos Mydolphinroot/m/photos/home/ where I get 404 Not Found ?

I would be great to have some kite of switcher between test, back up and live site.

the most logical reason here would be to make sure you have your .htaccess file in the root of the account that is throwing the 404's at you

the other way to make a copy, is to use cp -a which will copy the files over, and sometimes a touch quicker than tar'n up. but a tar file is a good idea as well.

you can also use if you have access, is the cPanel backup feature to create your backups. or as you have done tar czfv filename.tar.gz /path/to/dolphin-root no need to unpack that, just leave it tar'd then run the copy command. if since you are running phpmyadmin, not sure which version you have, but you can try the replication factor on there, create a database, then using phpmyadmin, try the replication from local to local . i have not done the replication from local to local but i have done it from remote to local and its really a nice feature.