Newbie to Upgrades

[Lars A]

Hi anyone

Up until now I have paid a web designer to upgrade for me as I can not find simple instructions on how to do this ...

I want to cut my costs and learn how to do this myself.

I have had a look at the vBulletin manual but it isn't in plain step-by-step English for a complete novice like me and one link leads to another link to another link ... until confusion sets in and you don't know if you are about to delete the whole of your forum you have created over months and years.

I'm currently on version 3.6.8 .... and just realised I have even posted this message in the wrong place under version 3.7 ... sorry ...

Is there a step-by-step instruction sheet out there to help me upgrade to the latest packages when they come out ? If not then I will just have to stay with the old versions and all their inherent security flaws ...

My other irritant is how to remove old Polls ... how do you delete these things without removing a whole thread in the process ?

Cheers

[Bounce]

The upgrade is really quite easy..:rolleyes::eek:

You should always back up your database,once you have, upload the new files onto your server overwriting the old ones

Use the upgrade script .. usually http://www.your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php (http://your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php) and follow the steps

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Threads & Posts > Strip Poll > Delete Poll Enter the threadid of the thread which contains the poll you wish to delete

[Jose Amaral Rego]

I would hold off on upgrading until this version is gold, as you do not want to be stuck using beta, as if you read the announcements you are somewhat out of luck for support until you upgrade to a stable version. You can not down grade, rollback or revert to older versions once you upgraded. If you are going to upgrade, then make sure you have a working backup that has been tested to be working and then you are free to test out beta from a live site.

You can also have a working test site on same server, but nobody can have any access or even see that you have a test site. You just then sign in as the user that posted and and in the information as you go along. (This is if you are worry in losing data if the beta goes wacked on you.

[FARSGSM]

The upgrade is really quite easy..:rolleyes::eek:

You should always back up your database,once you have, upload the new files onto your server overwriting the old ones

Use the upgrade script .. usually http://www.your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php (http://your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php) and follow the steps

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Threads & Posts > Strip Poll > Delete Poll Enter the threadid of the thread which contains the poll you wish to delete
i put my forum address in link below
http://www.your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php (http://your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php)

but not works, please help me learn how to upgrade my vb stepbystep
i'm also newbie.

thanks

[Lars A]

Thanks Bounce ...

I'll print these instructions out and try at the weekend ...

This company vBulletin is at risk of being a ' victim of it's own success ' ... as information is becoming harder to fing here and what is ' common knowledge ' to those that have been here for some time excludes those who are new ...

Not sure I have seen anywhere to try the Poll deletion though ...

Thanks again ...

[Lars A]

Hi again

I was able to figure out how to delete one poll ...

but another at:

http://www.cardiacathletes.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=10301#post10301

Wouldn't ... it might be due to the different threadid ending ... but I have tried trimming it step by step but it still won't remove this poll ...

Lars

[Chieftain]

I am also a newbie to vBulletin, and just completed the initial upgrade from SMF this week. I may go blind from eyestrain, but by God my forum is up and running on vBulletin.

I want to publicly thank Andy at vBulletin Support for his infinite patience, and irreplaceable assistance in helping this humble n00b navigate a conversion that I was clearly overmatched for. I am very pleased with the product, and very impressed with the best Customer Support I've seen to date on any site via the internet.

Thanks guys!

:D

[Bounce]

i put my forum address in link below
http://www.your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php (http://your.forum.url/install/upgrade.php)

but not works, please help me learn how to upgrade my vb stepbystep
i'm also newbie.

thanks


Have you uploaded all the files from the members area?

Hi again

I was able to figure out how to delete one poll ...

but another at:

http://www.cardiacathletes.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=10301#post10301

Wouldn't ... it might be due to the different threadid ending ... but I have tried trimming it step by step but it still won't remove this poll ...

Lars

Thread ID- 10301

Didn't work ?

[MoT3rror]

Hi again

I was able to figure out how to delete one poll ...

but another at:

http://www.cardiacathletes.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=10301#post10301

Wouldn't ... it might be due to the different threadid ending ... but I have tried trimming it step by step but it still won't remove this poll ...

Lars
In the url you are looking for
showthread.php?t=2367

Not

showthread.php?p=10301

When it is p= number, this is the post ID. When it is t= number, this is the thread ID.

[Lars A]

Thanks people ...

I discovered there were two ways into this old thread ... and I ended up with two different threadid's ... the correct one turned out to be t=587 ...

I was then able to delete this old poll ... and start afresh ...

Can't thank you enough for the quick help ...

Cheers

Lars

Now just need to try and figure out how to do upgrades myself ... I think there should be a simple step-by-step instruction sheet for absolute newbies on how to do this ... the manual assumes prior knowledge too much ...

So here goes :- ( please join in )

Step

1. Login to your websites ftp account
2. Make a backup copy of all ftp files into a new dated file on your home computer
3. .... I'll come back to this shortly

[Bounce]

So here goes :- ( please join in )

Step

1. Login to your websites ftp account
2. Make a backup copy of all ftp files into a new dated file on your home computer
3. .... I'll come back to this shortly

4, Make mysql back up in case it goes wrong :(
5,Download and extract new files from members area.
6,Upload and overwrite the files on your forums via ftp
7,Run /install/upgrade.php

8................... Cross your fingers and hope it works :D