From 3.8.6 to 4.0.1 : classic upgrade or another solution ?

Friday 14 November 2008 8:23:31 am

Hi !

I have an "old" website running on eZ Publish 3.8.6 that I want to upgrade to the last 4.x version.

This website isn't translated and he just has 1 public siteaccess and 1 admin siteaccess.

He contains 2500 content objects and no custom extensions/contribs.

I'm afraid about doing this upgrade : 3.8.6 to 3.9.0 to 3.10.x to 4.0.1 because I fear that the version obtained is unstable because of strong evolutions between 3.8.6 and 4.0.1.

Do you think it is better to go through another way of export from 3.8.6 / and re-import into 4.0.1 ?

Thanks in advance !

eZ Publish Freelance
web : http://www.webaxis.fr

Friday 14 November 2008 12:46:51 pm

Hi Greg,

Ok, so 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 => 4.0.1 like as recomended here http://ez.no/doc/layout/set/full/ez_publish/upgrading/images/ez_publish_releases

And doing 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 and 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 with PHP4 and 3.10.1 => 4.0.1 with PHP5 ?

eZ Publish Freelance
web : http://www.webaxis.fr

Saturday 15 November 2008 4:40:47 am

Hi,

Ok, I have done the 3.8.6 => 3.9.0 upgrade with success but the 3.9.0 => 3.10.1 fails. So I have to try 3.9.0 => 3.9.5 before 3.9.5 => 3.10.1.

Just a question : before to run sql scripts, whe have to copy the following directory in order to keep custom settings, design and var :

design/example
design/example_admin
var
settings/siteaccess
settings/override

But, prior to run the system upgrade scripts, did we have to configure the site.ini to work with the new database recently upgraded ?

eZ Publish Freelance
web : http://www.webaxis.fr

Saturday 15 November 2008 8:11:42 am

It's ok, upgrade done with success from 3.8.6 to 4.0.1 passing by 3.9.0 and 3.10.1.

Thanks all !

eZ Publish Freelance
web : http://www.webaxis.fr