Wow - what an ugly mess!

Well, thanks to Modzzz I was at least able to get the upgrade finished - I think. 

What an ugly mess though - does everyone's site look this bad after the upgrade:

http://caltrade.com/community

That is not even close to what my site looked like before - it at least looked ok.   Every single page I built has been trashed - including the profiles, which I was really proud of, and there are broken language keys everywhere.  This is what people must feel like after their town has been hit by a tornado.

I'll start what is likely to be a long process of cleaning up this mess tomorrow, but one thing I noticed right off the bat.  I no longer have a "member's block" for my home page.  Is it that way for everyone?   I did that mod in my 7.0 site that displayed random members with pictures - is that why it is gone? - or is it gone for everyone?

I'm going to bed.  I can't look at this any more today.

You realize this is a beta, right?  I wouldn't be surprised if there's anomalies with it (I know there were when I last tested it the other day).  That said, I recommend anyone who wants to switch to 7.1 make a test site and test the upgrade their before possibly wrecking the work to their customized site.

The situation with the template is because BoonEx overhauled the template system in this version.  New class names and code structure means 7.0 templates won't work without a little work.  From what I've read from others, it shouldn't be that hard to take the 7.0 UNI template and convert it to work in 7.1.  It's something I've thought of doing.

As I suggested in a post, if you have a production site, clone your site and work with the clone.  That will allow you to fix all the things that is wrong; such as templates.  Another area that has been noticed is that if you are letting people customise their profile, the new customiser has changed a bit and does not include anything but changing the background of the page.

Nathan, seriously that is not helpful.   First of all, yes, I know it is a "beta"  but Boonex said repeatedly that we could expect this to be "more stable" than 7.0.9.   Second, this is not a template issue - I was using the same uni template on my old site.   I am just expressing shock that there seems to have been not attempt to keep the formats of all the pages that have been built.  They even put a Boonex news block on my homepage.  I am not talking about losing mods or some minor format changes - I expected that to happen.  Take a look at my site after the upgrade - it speaks for itself.  It at least looked halfway decent before.

The main point of this post though - that was missed, was my question of what happened to the members block for the homepage.  Is it missing for everyone, or did I just lose it in my install.

So knowing it's a beta, you made no attempt to test it first?  Okay, then.

I do see the Members block on your index (maybe not for those logged in?).  The random mod was likely overwritten or doesn't work anymore.

Nathan, you seem to be following in the footsteps of that dead guy friend of yours you used to tag team me with - that kept me from using this service for almost a year.   I don't use this forum for my social network or for drama as you and a few others do  - I use it only for technical support and to give it when I can.   I made this title stronger than usual because frankly I was shocked that there seemed to be almost no attempt to preserve existing page blocks or design - even to the extreme of putting a Boonex block on our homepage.

Yes, that specific issue was likely the random members block being over ridden, and the block on that page obviously has had its format all screwed up = along with apparently dozens - at least - or other serious issues.   May I request though that unless you have something specific technical to add that you not comment on my posts.  It is ok not to comment if you don't have anything to add.   

Members block problem..

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2866

Thanks Newton - that is kind of a big one.  It makes me wonder if they tested this at all.  They didn't even try moving blocks around?

It looks like you didn't pay attention to the very important last step instructions:

- language files were not recompiled as was told in the last step

- it was told in the last step that all page blocks were reset to default - you need to go to page builder and arrange them back. 

@alex - yes I did - I compiled the languages as instructed.  I did my best to follow the whole thing like a cookbook.   The only thing I didn't do was the step with SSH about deleting unnecessary files.  Is that what you mean?  I don't think I have SSH access, and usually Boonex gives an alternative to that.  Is there anything I can do now?  It is going to take a long time to rebuild this. 

Rob, do you not have SSH access in you cPanel?

you can just load the page in a browser and it works the same way as ssh. or at least it did for me on my servers....

The shared server service I have uses plesk, not control panel.  If I have SSH I don't know where it is.

That SSH command didn't look like a url, so I didn't think to put it in the browser.   Does anyone know what it is - since it was part of the install process I no longer have it.   I will try putting it in the browser. 

Rob

 Delete unused files by executing the following command from SSH :

php ./upgrade/files/7.0.9-7.1.0.B1/delete_unused_files.php

Thank you Newton.  That runs fine from the browser - they maybe should clear that up on the instructions.  Still a mess, but that helped a bit. 

Your welcome, I'm glad to know that can be run from the browser as well.

Many many people don't even know what SSH is..

It can be run in browser like this:

http://example.com/path-to-dolphin/upgrade/files/7.0.9-7.1.0.B1/delete_unused_files.php

But it will work only when PHP is running under the full user privileges, so it will not work in many cases.

The option to run this script from SSH should work almost in all cases.