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Re: Upgrading from 1.9.19+ to 2.7

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by Paul Ritchings.  

Thank you for replying and getting back to me again.

Well that is what I decided to do.  Kind of.

I prefer would prefer to use a real mirror server but I have now temporarily created a copy of the whole site: data, scripts and database.  "Replicating" it on windows would not be possible either since I cannot write to the C:\ drive in the machine in the office.  Also it really isn't the same and may lead me astray.

When I ran the upgrade it gave me the "upgrade_log already exists" error.  I was not expecting that which means I must have missed a step in the restore.  

I tried the restored 1.9 site and it failed to load the home page (only gets to '</head>') but I think this is because of our customised code plus the fact that it had been moved to a new directory.  I will replace it with 1.9.19+ code, downloaded afresh.

At this point it would be helpful to know whether I can set the theme without using the web app?

I think the theme will be set to something a clean 1.9 version would not recognise.  If it doesn't find the theme files does it drop back to standard white?

I am going on vacation on thursday and won't be back till 11th August and I have been told to avoid doing this in that week.

By the way I did not just start this at the end of last week.  We had some real trouble getting a verified (checksummed) backup onto our windows network and had to use a usb hard drive in the end.  That process took until last Wednesday.  

Now I really can see why they say "considering not upgrading at all" ie doing an install and then restoring the courses.  I know for fact I won't be given the time to do that, though.


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