Moved to new server (GoDaddy), now I'm lost

[toylady]

I've been using Zen Cart for over 5 years now and I consider myself zc savvy up until now. I need help, here's my issue.

My host went oob. I am moving my websites to GoDaddy.
I decided to freshly install the newest version of ZC and to my dismay, my db wasn't compatible, DUH!
So, I came hear to grab an older version of ZC, I believe I had 1.3.6, installed that and now I can't complete the install because I get an error:
"Error encountered while writing /includes/configure.php"

Also, (this sounds terrible) I made backups before my previoud host went belly up, but I don't know what to do with .tar files.

any help is appreciated

[pdxdoug]

Old files can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenc....3.x%20Series/

I would recommend two things:

• Upgrade to the lastest version 1.3.9H
• and find another host other than GoDaddy

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...es&pages_id=10

Search the forum for both recommendations and you'll find a multitude of reasons to hopefully make some changes sooner than later.

Cheers,

[Vger]

As the "Upgrade Database Only" option doesn't need to write anything to the configure.php files I have never been able to fathom why it wants those two files to be writeable - but it does.

After you have installed your new Zen Cart site with its new 1.3.9h database you need to "Drop" all those shiny new tables using phpMyAdmin, and then import your old db backup into that new db.

Then you upload the new 1.3.9h zc_install folder to the root of your website and go to it in your browser and choose the "Upgrade Database Only" option. This will upgrade your old database to 1.3.9+ level, which along with your new 1.3.9h fileset gives you a new website with all your old customer and product data.

Vger

[DrByte]

Vger, they're not talking about upgrading specifically. They're trying to install and getting that "cannot write" message when the installer is trying to create the config files for their new server.

And, the "Upgrade Database Only" option does not need to write to configure.php files, and does not require them to be writeable. Maybe it did a long time ago, but it doesn't now, unless going from 1.2 to 1.3 where it needs to add new content to the files.

[toylady]

So if I do a fresh install of the newest version, I should be able to upgrade my database during install?

[toylady]

Is there a file that states what version zc is in use?