I'm so beyond frustrated right now with how we have to upgrade Zen Cart... I just wish there was a simpler way to do this...
Okay so I've been trying to follow the directions for upgrading my store, and I just wish they were more detailed on what to do...
I did the comparison between the original 3.8 and my version of 3.8 to see which changes I made. I made note of these, and then made the changes in 3.9 - they were only textual changes, no coding changes at all. I also looked to see which files I had in the templates section, and copied those into the templates in the 3.9 version (using the template override system, etc)...
so now - this should be, for the most part, an identical ############## (textual and design wise) of my 3.8 store.
So now it tells me to upload to "new_store" or what have you...
and to create a NEW database, which I did, and to update the admin/includes/configuration.php and includes/configuration.php to have the name of my database...
and to run the zc_install - okay all fine and dandy... now it tells me to follow along until I get an "Upgrade Database" button - there is none though... the closest I get to is something like "Update Cfg Files", which is right next to the "Install" button...
I'm pretty sure I don't want to do Install, so I click the Update Cfg Files - and then it tell me to input my database name and password - is this for my new database? or is this information for my old database?
If I put my new database it throws an error on the next page about not being able to find some cache
If I put the information for my old database, on the next page it tells me that the database prefixes aren't correct and that it can't find the zen_cart tables...
I don't know what to do - and I have to get this upgrade finished in the next 24 hours....
and none of the "instructions for upgrading" talked about this last part I'm talking about - is there a better guide somewhere on how to upgrade our stores??
now my next problem... after this upgrade is finished, we're going to be moving our website to a new domain... how complicated will this change be in order to get zen_cart to work (assuming all file structures stay the same except that the main domain name will now be different)....
Thanks for your help on this! I'm willing to even go over this stuff over the phone, or doing a screen share or something...
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