Please upgrade here. These earlier versions are no longer being updated and have security issues.
HackerOne users: Testing against this community violates our program's Terms of Service and will result in your bounty being denied.
Import vanilla 2.0 database to 2.1?
Nonnisi
New
Is it possible to import my 2.0 database to a 2.1 site, what is the best way to do this? Should I just point the new forum to the old database when setting up?
0
Comments
Why can't you import in an install of 2.0 and then upgrade?
2.1 is still in alpha mode, not for live sites.
There was an error rendering this rich post.
Well basically Ill explain what happened.
I had a 2.0 install, and I tried to upgrade it, following this http://vanillaforums.org/docs/installation-upgrade
That went.. badly, it came out with nothing but fatal errors. To the point where I had to totally wipe the forum off the server. So now I am in a state of a clean install, however I still have my old database.
I did a clean install of 2.0, then upgraded it to 2.1, then went to /utility/upgrade and got this error.
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'PATH_LIBRARY_CORE/functions.error.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5_3/lib/php') in /home/content/52/9077052/html/bootstrap.php on line 33Hmm, I seem to get that error when ever I try and include my 2.0 config with 2.1, is there some basic upgrade procedure I am missing?
Looks like the 2.0 config doesn't know the constant PATH_LIBRARY_CORE.
Your solution is in the fact that you need to start with 2.0, get it working, backup, backup, backup and then try to upgrade again.
2.1 is not for live sites.
There was an error rendering this rich post.
I have made a perfect clone of the server on my laptop, fresh config and everything though, same error is coming up when I try and upgrade that.
Ok, perfect clone is good. So you have a working version of 2.0.18.4, correct? Now you have an error : I cannot find path ... So what you need to do is go to the config and see where PATH_LIBRARY_CORE is defined. Is it defined or not. If you can install 2.1 next to it (clean install) you can compare 2.1 config to 2.0 config (use WinMerge) and add that path to your config. It's cutting edge, risky, but since it's on your laptop no-one will notice but you.
I'm calling in the help of @peregrine since he can tell you this stuff in a more fun way. Keep the backup (clone) of what you have now, since your upgrade will be a nice test once we go alpha, beta, etc. You're running cutting edge version at the moment.
There was an error rendering this rich post.
this is only a guess since I haven't used the upgrade, because 2.1 is in alpha stage
do you have a conf/constants.php?
try adding this to line 2 in bootstrap.php
define('PATH_ROOT', getcwd()); and try commenting out line 25 // if (!defined('VANILLA_CONSTANTS')) so this will always execute. include(PATH_CONF.'/constants.php');I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.
If your constants don't show up in your included or required files, then you probably have php safe mode turned on!
I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.
a traditional yet very effective way of upgrading for me is installing new version from scratch and just importing each database tables from old installation to new database, from users to discussions and uploading 'uploads' folder manually works great
@Nonnisi i've found something interesting that may help you import. what i did is this:
gdn_user
gdn_comment
gdn_conversation
gdn_conversationmessage
gdn_discussion
gdn_activity
gdn_role
gdn_userdiscussion
or you may download everything if you want.
DONE
You need to run /utility/update after upgrading. That will update your database appropriately.
so Lincoln - just for clarification -
http://vanillaforums.org/docs/installation-upgrade
would be the doc to follow for the standard way of updating for an update from 2.0.81.4 and 2.1
and is it working bug-free (as far as you know) now for 2.1a33 and later?
the reason I ask is because in earlier alpha releases the above procedure did not seem to work.
I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.
You're asking me if the upgrade from an unreleased alpha to an unreleased beta is working bug free? C'mon. :P
I've incrementally upgraded my database structure successfully using /utility/update and as far as we know that process will work. Reinstalling or "importing" is not a good strategy. If you find a glitch, then give us enough information to diagnose it (like exactly what version you started on, which version you're upgrading to, what steps you took to upgrade, and exactly what errors you're getting) not recommend people some cockamamy rigamarole workaround that involves deleting conf files.
Not exactly what i meant to imply.
I guess i meant to ask "does /utility/update completes without a fatal error. "
and you answered it here.
Thanks. I had asked if anyone successfully used the utility/update for 2.1 upgrading and no one ever replied. So, it's good news.
I also saw your other thread here - which folks should also read when upgrading.
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/170761/#Comment_170761
I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.
Both my sites (icrontic.com and newbuddhist.com) typically run on the develop branch. In three years, I've never had an impassable problem that required reinstalling or reconfiguring anything. They're currently running on the release branch for testing and because I'm told the develop branch is currently suicidal.