Is this a vaild way to upgrade?

[bradlawson]

There is a lot of sugguestions on how to upgrade from 2 to 3 but after playing around with it for a hour or so i found this a good soultion, but not if it is ok. So all i did is a fresh install and then edit the old sql files and removed everything besides my customers, orders info etc. Then inside phpadmin I import that info into the new sql db and bingo. I have all the old info on the new server. If anyone knows any problems i could have using this method please let me know.


Thanks

Brad

[nextlevelmotoring]

That's what I'm thinking about doing.....similar to porting the site over from OSC - just do a fresh install, and port over the database info.

[dbltoe]

You'll probably find that the system tells you the database should be upgraded.
Here's down and dirty how I do it.

BACKUP

that said,

1. create new directory
2. copy 1.3.0.2 FULL fileset into new directory
3. create new database
4. run zc_install on the new directory to build the cart and populate the new database
5. make sure cart and admin run in new directory
6. delete all tables and data from the new database
7. drop backup of old database into new database (you make need to edit the backup to match the new database name.
8. run Zc_install once more and select ONLY database upgrade on the third page.
9. if you used a prefix before, add it on the upgrade page.
10. Remember the username and password it asks for is the ADMIN and NOT for the database.
11. Copy files from new directory to site directory (you may want to reintroduce any mods and adjust the template first)
12. change both configure files to reflect the directory and database info

When you're through, you'll have a fresh copy of Zen with all your customers, previous settings, and products.

[bradlawson]

It workded for me, but your way seemed better. I would of done it that way but i couldn't get the database upgrade to work

[Niaknow]

Hello!

HELP!!! LOl- Please!!

I'm trying to do what as you have said, but received an error message of
"1146 Table 'candkno0_.configuration' doesn't exist" what should I do in this case?
I'm in the UPgrade process..

Thanks

[cshart]

Can you use the site to site cpanel whm technique with zen cart. Will this work???

Carol

[DrByte]

Can you use the site to site cpanel whm technique with zen cart. Will this work???

Carol

Answer posted here in your other request for same info:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43684