upgrading using fantastico

[mjpwall]

Hi all,

I'm currently using version 1.3.8a and want to upgrade to 1.3.9. My hosting uses cpanel and fantastico for installing zen cart etc. it's offering an upgrade to 1.3.9 is it safe to perform the upgrade that way?

Thabks for any help/advice you can give

[schoolboy]

NO... don't do it.

Upgrades should only be done manually.

[wingc3]

Hi all,

I'm currently using version 1.3.8a and want to upgrade to 1.3.9. My hosting uses cpanel and fantastico for installing zen cart etc. it's offering an upgrade to 1.3.9 is it safe to perform the upgrade that way?

Thabks for any help/advice you can give

You should search the forums for similar threads like yours. This question has been posted many times in the forums.

Don't ever use fantastico to upgrade your site, it will break your site.

[commdiver]

NO... don't do it.

Upgrades should only be done manually.

Excuse my ignorance, but why not?


To the original poster, if you are concerned about the difficulty, do not be. I used Fantastico for my initial install, but have done all upgrade manually. Just make sure to use the template override system and backup everything before starting.

[schoolboy]

Excuse my ignorance, but why not?

For a large number of reasons, which I won't go into, but consider this as an example.

One of the first things you do when you install zencart, is ceate your custom template. (some people customize the default template, which is procedurally incorrect, but they do this nevertheless.)

If you have done any customizations (let's say in 1.3.8) and you attempt an "upgrade" via fantastico, two things are likely to happen (based on what I said in the above paragraph.)

1. If you customized the default template, this upgrade will over-write the files that you customized. You will lose customized work.

2. If you have a proper custom template, all these customized files will stay as 1.3.8, and the remainder of the software will be 1.3.9.

Customized files ALSO need to be upgraded - and the only way to do this is MANUALLY. There are tools such as winmerge that help you do this, by COMPARING files and alerting you to differences - but essentially, every custom file created in 1.3.8 needs to be manually changed to reflect the updates in their corresponding 1.3.9 files.

You work with the CHANGELOG files, so you can see at a glance what files are affected by an upgrade, and if any files in the changelog(s) happen to be customized, these need manual upgrading.

[frank18]

Hi all,

I'm currently using version 1.3.8a and want to upgrade to 1.3.9. My hosting uses cpanel and fantastico for installing zen cart etc. it's offering an upgrade to 1.3.9 is it safe to perform the upgrade that way?

Thabks for any help/advice you can give

This thread may also help: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155891