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#9889 Upgrade Instructions From Core to Professional

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Latest post by slaes on Monday, 06 June 2011 10:00 CDT

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 22:08 CDT

user1146
Hi,

I will be the first to admit I am a moron if someone points out where I can find the upgrade instructions from core to professional versions. Checked the docs, and forum search is not filtering to the top what I need.

Do I need to uninstall core first, or just install pro and it will manage the version change?

Thanks for the guidance.

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 23:07 CDT

slaes
1. make a site backup using akeeba. this is good practice before doing any serious enhancements, including upgrading joomla.

2. Install ATP right over the top of core. It should work fine, if it doesn't uninstall core, reinstall ATP.

3. Configure ATP as it's got many new features not included in core.

Your Done.

Thursday, 02 June 2011 02:27 CDT

user1146
That works. (-:

Thanks.

Monday, 06 June 2011 09:35 CDT

user40116
Hi Everyone

I have JoomlaPack on a site and plan to upgrade to Akeeba but can't.

This site went down then the host company rolled it back to restore it a couple months ago. There has been a lot of new content since so I can 't use an older back up file.

Before I can upgrade to Akeeba, I want to do a backup but can't because every attempt fails du to an error "CUBE is not initialised".

I have been advised that if I do an upgrade to Akeeba that this will fix the isssue. The plan is then to FTP down the complete site onto a test server, upgrade to Akeeba, check iteverything is ok and then do on the live site. Does this sound like a good plan?

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks

Monday, 06 June 2011 09:58 CDT

nicholas
This sounds like a solid plan, really! JoomlaPack was never designed to run on PHP 5.3 (that's why it fails now), while Akeeba Backup is. Now that all hosts are migrating to PHP 5.3, I expect all JoomlaPack installations to fail. Besides, JoomlaPack had a security flaw and was unpublished forever. Using Akeeba Backup is the only safe option. The indicated solution is:
1. Download all your JoomlaPack archives on your local PC
2. Uninstall JoomlaPack
3. Remove any old backup archives, if they are still present on your site.
4. Install Akeeba Backup
5. Click on the Configuration Wizard button and wait for the wizard to complete. If it hangs for more than 3 minutes, reload the page and wait for it to complete.
6. Take a new backup.

This should be adequate.

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Monday, 06 June 2011 10:00 CDT

slaes
if your worried, simply run a full cpanel backup (which includes DB), download the backup and also extract a copy of the database from PHP my admin.

then upgrade to akeeba on the live site. If you need to go back, you can easily restore everything via cpanel, literally point and click.

Whole process 5 minutes.

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