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Upgrading ConstructrCMS
General Overview of the Upgrade Process
1) Always backup Your Database. It is strongly recommended that You backup your Database at regular Intervals and before any Upgrade. Restoring Your Database from Backup is then possible if something goes wrong (try using PHPMyAdmin or SqlBuddy).
2) Backup all Files via FTP. Always backup Your Workspace-Folder at regular Intervals and before any Upgrade.
3) Download the new Version using Subversion or the .ZIP- and .TAR.GZ-Downloads available at SourceForge.net.
4) Upload the extracted new Files to Your Webspace, but do not replace the Folder/Files:
- ROOT_OF_YOUR_CONSTRUCTR-CMS/data/workspace/ (This is Your whole Frontend - Your Website)
- ROOT_OF_YOUR_CONSTRUCTR-CMS/data/config/config.inc.php (Very importend File - it contains Your Database Connection-Data and more importend Things)
- ROOT_OF_YOUR_CONSTRUCTR-CMS/cache/ (This is the actual Cache of Your Website - Your cached Files will be deleted too, deleting this Folder)
- ROOT_OF_YOUR_CONSTRUCTR-CMS/plugins/ (You will delete manually added Plugins by replacing this Folder)
5) Compare the new config.inc.php-File with Your old config.ini.php-File located at root/data/config/config.inc.php and apply any Changes manually via Your preferred Text-Editor.
6) Visit Your Backend and open the File root/backend/upgrade.php and follow the Instructions. Only use the Update-Function for Your Constructr CMS Update-Version.
7) Update the Plugin-Directories located at ROOT/plugins/.
8) Check Your Frontend.
9) Check the main Functionality of Your Backend.
10) Read the ChangeLog.
11) That´s it - You upgraded successfully.
If you got Trouble upgrading Your ConstructrCMS: try to re-upgrade Your Installation with this handy Guide - or ask for Help at the Constructr-Forum.
Upgrading from Version 3.02.5 to 3.02.6 / 29.12.2008
First grab a fresh Copy of Constructr CMS here. No Database-Updates are needed. Just follow the above mentioned Updating-Instructions
Upgrading from Version 3.02.4 to 3.02.5 / 05.12.2008
First grab a fresh Copy of Constructr CMS here.
To update Your Copy of Constructr CMS transfer the following Files via FTP to Your Webspace:
- ROOT/index.php
- ROOT/backend/ All Files
- ROOT/data/js All Files
- ROOT/plugins/google_analytics All Files
- ROOT/data/config/constructr_define.inc.php
- ROOT/data/config/constructr_define.inc.php_DE
- ROOT/data/config/constructr_define.inc.php_EN
After uploading the above mentioned Files, visit the ROOT/backend/update.php-File with a Javascript enabled Browser.
Just follow the Instructions (click the Button and wait). After updating Your Database, delete the ROOT/backend/update.php-File. Thats it!