Config Files for Admin

[lhungil]

I am upgrading from 1.3.9h to 1.5.1 ... However I have installed 1.5.1 from my hosting company and it does not contain the folder zc_install. Therefore I have downloaded 1.5.1 from the ZenCart site and ftp'd the folder across.

I would recommend starting over with the upgrade, not using the hosting companies "script", and following the procedures listed in the Zen Cart documentation. There are a number of things which need to happen for an "upgrade" to be successful and using the upgrade process supplied by the developers of Zen Cart usually works best (and is the least painful).

Yes you can probably temporarily rename the admin back to "/admin"... As this will let Zen Cart use your existing configure.php files. But I would make sure you are operating on a "clone" of the original site instead of the live website... In case anything goes wrong...

If you used a script from the hosting provider to "upgrade", there may be other problems... And it may be faster to just download the distribution from Zen Cart directly and start the upgrade process over... Following the outlined process (and using a different database / location until the upgraded site is ready to go). Alternatively you could try to contact your hosting provider and have them fix things...

[gcopping]

Thanks for the reply - I wish the info about preferably not using a web hosts script had been in the documentation it might have save me a lot of time.

I am working on a clone of the site and am not using the web hosts script to upgrade. I have started with a new copy of 1.5.1 and am then customising as per the original version of the site, and then restoring the 1.3.9h db into this new version.

I don't want to start over as I have already spent about 12 hours on this project and still don't have a new version to test. So I will try changing the name of the admin folder and move on from there, unless anyone tells me that this won't work.

[lhungil]

I am working on a clone of the site and am not using the web hosts script to upgrade. I have started with a new copy of 1.5.1 and am then customising as per the original version of the site, and then restoring the 1.3.9h db into this new version. ... So I will try changing the name of the admin folder and move on from there, unless anyone tells me that this won't work.

Ahh, good - no host provided "upgrade script" - just an installer (possibly with some minor modifications). I'd give the "folder rename" + "database upgrade only" a good chance of working for you in that case. After the DB upgrade, you might need to re-run the "install" for any installed Zen Cart modules which made database changes. About the only big gotcha I remember.

*crosses fingers* Let us know how it goes!