How Do I Upgrade from 1.6.6 to Current Version
How Do I?
I am using version 1.6.6 with 79000 articles in the database.
I like to upgrade to latest version.
My site is http://www.gilmerfreepress.net
Also the site is live and articles added continuously. Can upgrade behind the scene and implement is when done?
Thank you
Can anyone including the company help me?
Could the company convert my database to new version?
We’ve recently upgrade a similar large site from EE1 > EE3.
Briefly what we did:
STAGE 1 - TEST UPGRADE
- Copy site to a development server
- Upgrade from EE1 > EE2, including 3rd party addons
- we had to replace some EE1 addons with EE2 equivalents - make notes on things we needed to do during this part of the upgrade
- Check everything was working as expected and resolve issues
- Upgrade from EE2 > EE3, including 3rd party addons
- we had to replace some EE2 addons with EE3 equivalents - make notes on things we needed to do during this part of the upgrade
- Check everything was working as expected and resolve issues
The important part of this process is to document changes to 3rd party addons, tweaks to template code and how to resolve any other issues.
Obviously, and like your case, the data on the live/dev sites will become out of sync.
STAGE 2 - FINAL UPGRADE
The final step would to close the live site for a couple of hours (maybe at a quite time like overnight or at the weekend), copy the site + DB to a development area, then reapply the whole upgrade. Assuming you documented all the changes you should sail through this quite easily.
Once all is good copy your files and DB to your live server and reopen it.
Rob, why not just copy upgraded site on dev server back to production? That’s what I do. I just change the name of the db on the dev site, add another subdomain on production, and upload upgraded dev site, and get the install running there. Then switch the upgraded subdomain to being the live home subdomain.
@wildrock, my guess is that since the site is constantly being updated that the content would not be current on the dev site that has been upgraded. You would either have to re-enter any content that was posted since the site was last backed up for moving to dev environment, or put a freeze on the live site content updates, and perform the upgrades.
@rtsgdr Do you have a lot of third-party plugins in use. If yes, upgrading/replacing those will probably be the toughest part. You won’t know until you move the site to a dev server and research the plugin’s upgrade history and try to upgrade everything.