Upgrade + move flarum

tlalok

Ok, perhaps with this procedure

Disable all extensions. (If you've set a language other than English as the default language for your forum, be sure to set the default language back to English before disabling the language pack!)
Back up your database, your config.php file, and your assets directory.
Delete everything in your forum directory.
Installation instructions for beta 6.
Replace config.php and assets with your backups.

Run the following queries on your database:

UPDATE `migrations` SET `extension` = CONCAT('flarum-', extension) WHERE `extension` IS NOT NULL;
UPDATE `config` SET `key` = CONCAT('flarum-', `key`) WHERE `key` LIKE '%.%';

run

rm -Rf assets/*.js assets/*.css storage/cache/* storage/formatter/* storage/views/*

Visit yourforum.com/admin and enter your database password to perform the update.
Re-enable extensions. After enabling the English language pack, you may need to delete assets/*.js if language strings are not showing up.

adasiek

So you think removing assets and storage will help with this issue? Because this is the only difference between your procedure and what I did. The issue here is that some file in beta.6 relies on settings table and this file is used before migrating.

tlalok

adasiek I don't know, I think we have to do tests

adasiek

Ok, but I will try your solution tomorrow. Now I have to go to sleep after 4-hour long setting up nginx ?

adasiek

Another thought: I'm not sure how these migrations work, but if it just takes file from directory 'migrations', runs it and saves its name into db, then maybe I could just remove this particular file, perform migrations and then manually insert this never-run migration into migrations table?

Is this a good idea?

luceos

Try running php flarum migrate from ssh if you can't access admin because it's missing the settings table.

adasiek

luceos it returns the same stacktrace

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adasiek i was at the same shoes as u when i had a beta 2 installation thag i needed to upgrade.... Unfortunately non of the auto-update methods seemed to work...

I had to install a fresh installation of flarum running the latest version and then post some test posts and added some test tags and i went into the database and compared each table and column one by one to the one of the old beta 2 forum and had to add any missing columns and rename whatever was renamed (including renaming the config table to the settings table) and then once i was done with all of that, i changed the version in the settings table to the latest and then i updated the flarum installation and everything worked perfectly! The update through the admin pannel doesn't work so the method I described above is the only way.

Also please refer to https://discuss.flarum.org/d/3772-upgrading-from-beta-2/

adasiek

[deleted] Oh, I was afraid I will have to do this. I mostly understand what you wrote, but I don't understand

[deleted] i changed the version in the settings table to the latest and then i updated the flarum installation

What do you mean by updated the flarum installation?

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adasiek like all the steps to upgrade from beta 2 to beta 3 but skip the part where u have to go to yourdomain.com/admin since u already manually upgraded

Also what i keant by "i changed the version in the settings table" is

In the settings table (known as config in beta 2 but u have to rename it) there is a column stating which version of flarum the db was updated/installed in .... That's what makes the flarum installation determin if it needs to update the db or not.... We don't want that in this case so you have to edit that to say it's the latest version

Also want to add up that you should copy the migrations table from ur new flarum installation and import it to the one you're upgrading....this will help prevent issues i faced before

adasiek

ok. seems really difficult ? but all right. Do you have, by any chance, list of this changes? I read migrations but they all aren't clear to me

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adasiek unfortunately I don't.... You will have to install a separate flarum installation running the latest version and posts some test posts to fill up the tables and then compare the two databases for name changes, added tables and added columns

That's how i did it

The process itself wasn't that difficult but it took me allot of time to actually figure it out.... But you're lucky since now i told u the exact method which I found the hard way so you won't have to struggle as much as i did ?

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adasiek any luck?

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