Hi


I'm wondering if it's possible to upgrade to a new board ( i'm on 1.2.10) and was looking at upgrading to 1.4.4 but i'm most likely moving servers ( hosts) as well at the same time.


What's me best way around this?
As my database name etc wil al be different i'm somewhat concerned how to do this?

Also could you just not install a fresh version of mybb and then somehow just import the old posts and members data etc from my old version of the board?


Hope that makes some sort of senses?

Thanks.

If the database will be different you can edit it in the config file. The upgrade needs to be performed on one server (containing both forums new and old)

There is a main article on it here: http://wiki.mybboard.net/index.php/Upgrading

It will upgrade all your posts and things. If you need anymore help just ask! :p

Thanks Polarbear541! (Polar or PB)
Tuts Team at MyBBSource

(03-29-2009 04:18 AM)polarbear541 Wrote:  If the database will be different you can edit it in the config file. The upgrade needs to be performed on one server (containing both forums new and old)

There is a main article on it here: http://wiki.mybboard.net/index.php/Upgrading

It will upgrade all your posts and things. If you need anymore help just ask! :p

Thanks for your reply.

So if it needs to be performed on one server i take i will need to download the entire forum via ftp then re upload that to the new server and then install the new version?


Now the config file what would i need to edit in there the database name?


Thanks again.

Inside Config File:


The type you can leave as it is unless you know otherwise. The next row is the database name and after that is the table prefix (default: mybb_). Then it is the SQL hostname or server usually localhost. Then it is the useranem and password.

Hope this helps :p

Thanks Polarbear541! (Polar or PB)
Tuts Team at MyBBSource

(03-29-2009 04:18 AM)polarbear541 Wrote:  If the database will be different you can edit it in the config file. The upgrade needs to be performed on one server (containing both forums new and old)

There is a main article on it here: http://wiki.mybboard.net/index.php/Upgrading

It will upgrade all your posts and things. If you need anymore help just ask! :p

(03-29-2009 06:40 PM)polarbear541 Wrote:  Inside Config File:

Code:

$config['database']['type'] = 'mysqli';
$config['database']['database'] = 'forum';
$config['database']['table_prefix'] = 'mybb_';

$config['database']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$config['database']['username'] = 'forum';
$config['database']['password'] = 'pass';

The type you can leave as it is unless you know otherwise. The next row is the database name and after that is the table prefix (default: mybb_). Then it is the SQL hostname or server usually localhost. Then it is the useranem and password.

Hope this helps :p

Thanks for your time i'll give this a go and report back any problems .


Thanks for your time.

Ok seem to have a problem with Performing Queries


It just seems to hang on that page and not do anything?

Performing Queries
Performing necessary upgrade queries..


I selected the correct verions 1.29 ( i thought it was 10) but i'm on 9 when i checked.

Thanks .

There's no way around this anyone?


Thanks.

are there any obvious errors?
or does it just hang?

Try it again

Thanks Polarbear541! (Polar or PB)
Tuts Team at MyBBSource

Sometimes when upgrading from some versions of 1.2 you need to go via 1.2.14.

(03-31-2009 07:28 PM)polarbear541 Wrote:  are there any obvious errors?
or does it just hang?

Try it again

It just hangs tried it a few times no luck.

(03-31-2009 08:30 PM)Matt_ Wrote:  Sometimes when upgrading from some versions of 1.2 you need to go via 1.2.14.

Maybe i'll try this then and see how i go thanks.