Upgrading from 3.5.5 to 4.0-RC4 troubles
  • Vote Up0Vote Down haddershadders
    Posts: 26Member
    Just been testing out upgrading my site from Newscoop 3.5.5 to 4.0-RC4 today, and have run into a few troubles. Here is the procedure I've followed.

    1. Production site is already at 3.5.5, so I make a backup from Newscoop Backup/Restore tool.
    2. Install a fresh 3.5.5 on the same server (different vhost)
    3. Restore the production backup into the new v3.5.5 site and change alias. Everything is ok.
    4. Copy v4.0-RC4 files over 3.5.5 files, and chown everything
    5. Go to homepage, get message about maintanence, go to upgrade.php - get message saying it's upgraded.
    6. Login to Admin, and all seems fine until except:
    1. Articles don't have authors anymore.
    2. If I edit an article to add an author, the changes are not saved.
    3. Adding related articles doesn't work - I have the overlay, but changes are not carried across to the article.
    4. While editing the article and working on images - neither media archive or place images shows thumbnails.
    5. In fact, the images/cache folder is not present.
    If I install a fresh version of 4.0-RC4, this works fine.

    My system is:
    PHP Version 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
    Zend Engine v2.3.0
    Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
    Ubuntu Server 11.10

    Thanks
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Petr JasekPetr Jasek
    Posts: 144Member
    hello hadders,

    are you getting any errors in apache error log on those pages?

    petr
  • Vote Up0Vote Down haddershadders
    Posts: 26Member
    Hi Petr
    The only error I found is:
    File does not exist: /var/www/newscoop-4.0-RC4/images/cache
    which is due to to trying to view the missing images in the media archive.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Petr JasekPetr Jasek
    Posts: 144Member
    can u try to create that folder and make it writable?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down haddershadders
    Posts: 26Member
    Hi
    Have just reproduced the whole thing, adding in images/cache and chown to www-data.www-data before upgrading from 3 to 4 -

    But I still have the same problems where author is not available and thumbnails are not working in the edit article media archive.
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