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Upgrading 2.12.1 to 2.12.2

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richwingerter:
I have 2.12.1 installed and it is giving me an error message when a new user tries to register. In an effort to fix this problem, I want to upgrade to 2.12.2.

I checked a bunch of the documentation:


* https://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,31528.0.html
* https://help.WebsiteBaker.org/en/userguide/installation/prior-to-installation.php
* DOCU/README_EN.md
This leaves me very uncertain the correct procedure to do the upgrade.

I have 2.12.1 installed in a directory, call it /home/admin/WB. That directory has subdirectories, like account, admin, etc.

I unzipped WebsiteBaker-2_12_2.zip and created WebsiteBaker-2_12_2.tar.gz from the directory structure, on my Windows system. I uploaded it to the production (Linux) server and tested. It gives me a wb directory with all the 2.12.2 files in their proper directory structure.

Should I delete the existing WB files in /home/admin/WB and then extract the files from this tar.gz file into it, so that /home/admin/WB has the new, 2.12.2 files, and then run upgrade_script.php (which would be the one coming from the 2.12.2 distribution)? If not, what's the best way to upgrade?

Thank you.

dbs:
Hi, is the word "delete" somewhere in the upgrade instructions?
Why you want delete something?
You want delete also your images in media and also your template inclusive all changes?

Extract your tar.gz in home/admin/WB.
Login as user with id 1.
click the upgrade link.

You can help us to understand what is unclear in the upgrade instructions.

richwingerter:
If I extract it in /home/admin/WB, it will very likely overwrite the existing files. That would surely delete some of them, and possibly leave others. Is that what's intended? It seems like that would create an enormous mess, with files for the new version intermixed with files from the old one. Is that how others are upgrading?

Gast:

--- Quote ---Is that how others are upgrading?
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Yes, it is!

Files that are no longer needed will automatically delete by the upgrade script later

dbs:
You know now the upgrade instructions and you ask "Is that how others are upgrading?".
New WB versions have not many new files, but many changed files. The upgrade script delete some of old not needed files.

Yes, you can delete self all WB files before uploading (except config.php, your images in media, your template).
Don't forget step 1: make a backup of database and files.

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