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Trying to update to EE5

How Do I?

jostar's avatar
jostar
36 posts
4 years ago
jostar's avatar jostar

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[’ in /home2/basedir/public_html/system/ee/EllisLab/ExpressionEngine/Boot/boot.php on line 75

Any suggestions?

       
Tom Jaeger's avatar
Tom Jaeger
228 posts
4 years ago
Tom Jaeger's avatar Tom Jaeger

Is this via the one click update system?

If so, please try again, we had a header issue thats now been resolved.

       
jostar's avatar
jostar
36 posts
4 years ago
jostar's avatar jostar

Thanks Tom for answering.

No, I am trying to update from ExpressionEngine 3.5.7 to the latest v.5 following

If updating from ExpressionEngine 3 or higher

Copy admin.php to admin.php Copy index.php to index.php Copy system/ee/ to system/ee/ Copy themes/ee/ to themes/ee/

etc.

Any clue?

       
Tom Jaeger's avatar
Tom Jaeger
228 posts
4 years ago
Tom Jaeger's avatar Tom Jaeger

Ah, what version of PHP are you running?

Just to confirm, your following the directions from the link below starting with the “If updating from ExpressionEngine 3 or higher” section?

https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/updating.html#updating-manually

       
jostar's avatar
jostar
36 posts
4 years ago
jostar's avatar jostar

Got it Tom. Thank you. It works like a charm

       

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