Not understanding this

Okay, I upgraded my store from about 1.2.something, to the most recent 1.3.0.2, upgraded the sql patches. The admin is working fine. It's saying everything is current.

It's pulling the products from the database, but not any of the pages that talk about the store itself. It's claiming that the pictures for the products are not available. The file for the layout/CSS isn't working either. The whole store is messed up.

What happened? Is it a connection to the DB problem, or is it that I installed the new files over top of the old files? I just did a straight replace. I tried to run the installer, but that didn't work either because it doesn't have a password on the database and it keep getting an error in the attempt to connect.

What did I miss? I thought I followed the instructions for updating....

Check the contents of your includes/configure.php file against the admin/includes/configure.php file - especially the database entries.

Vger

If you changed from version 1.2 to version 1.3 there are a few things -

#1 version 1.2 templates do not work on version 1.3 zen therefore your template isn't going to work.

# 2 if you didn't use the over ride system correctly on your old site, you just erased all of them when you over wrote files from the new installer

$ 3 Hopefully you used the Full Fileset when you upgraded. If you used changed files only you are missing major files that have changed. The changed files upgrades for 1.3.0,1 & 2 are only for those who have already upgraded to 1.3.0 - the change files only for version 1.3.0.2 are only to be used by those already running 1.3.0.1


Basically you should not have overwritten your files, you should upgrade in a seperated folder and then when it all works you can change that folder to live.

Hope that helps a little.