[ic] 2nd Request: Re: Help w/upgrades & Updates loosing settings & functionality...
Jack Sasportas
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed May 21 22:59:00 2003
I have been having a hell of a time when updating IC to newer versions
from older versions.
I was running a fully functional IC that lets say was about 30 days old.
I then updated (cvs) and installed the latest and greatest.
Once that is done, and I restart IC, my carts loose their pages, admin
doesn't work and I end up having to reinstall it, which is a big pain.
Now I want to see if I can become better informed in order not to drive
myself nuts with doing things 20 times during updates etc, so
please help me out with some of the following questions:
1. Because the dir is there, if I don't let it overwrite the files the
setup stalls right? no config is written etc?
/home/name.com/www/catalog: directory exists!
The above directories already exist. Overwrite files? n
So you have to loose everything in order to get the new ver?
2. if I make changes to results.html to show pictures of the items etc,
that gets lost because it changes with each new version of IC, and I
can't take a chance that a new variable exists within that html to
simply copy the previous older version over the new one. Is there a way
to better manage these changes so I don't have to keep redoing the work?
3. Catalog Name - when creating a catalog name for different domains, do
I have a restriction that only allows me to use a specific name only one
time on that server ? example abc.com/catalog 123.com/catalog, would
those catalog names conflict?
4. Backup suggestions - I do have backups of everything ( linux style )
but is there a way to keep all the settings, options etc and backup IC
catalogs individually in order to have clean restores even to lets say
another server ?
Thanks!
Jack
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Jack Sasportas
Innovative Internet Solutions
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