Magento

This may be a simple question but:

When uploading the new files to the server, do I overwrite the existing directories and files or do I upload into a new folder, called eg. /storenew
My store is currently in a directory https://www.my_site/store

And is so doing will I need to reset permissions for app, media, skin directories?

I have looked at the Wiki - Upgrading Magento but this was not made clear.

Use Magento Connect via admin, System> Magento Extensions> Manage Extensions, This i think is the best way to upgrade.

casterdon - 30 April 2008 05:26 AM

Use Magento Connect via admin, System> Magento Extensions> Manage Extensions, This i think is the best way to upgrade.

I do not see the upgrade in List Extensions, and entering 19700 or rev19700 says invalid extension name. Where does one go from here?
I guess we need the official extension name, do you know wht that is?

Isn’t this going to overwrite boxes.css, your own logos etc, just like the fresh installs of betas?  I thought we were gong to be thru with that with 1.0 Why do they have to include main_container.gif etc etc on an upgrade when most of us have our own now?  I don’t know about this magento connect method, but the downloaded zip file has all the original stuff in it and we are still told to save our own so we can refresh it.

Since its an upgrade, why not leave some of these folders out of it, or only put in whats new, not the origianl stuff that most people have edited.

Thanks.

Yes I see the same thing in MagentoConnect with no extensions or 19700 to upgrade.

I must be missing a step or something. It may be the best way to upgrade but it doesn’t show anything to upgrade.

Thanks.

I am having the same problem. I have found that you need to upload the megento-downloader.zip http://www.magentocommerce.com/download not 1.0 19700.zip.

Doing this but i still donot see anything to upgrade in the mag connect manager

We use the SSH method to upgrade our clients stores, it works perfect and much quicker. You can install the downloader with SSH too, once complete you will see your Magento is running the latest extensions. It’s listed in the Magento Wiki, near the bottom. http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/upgrading_magento

Well I finally have ver 1.0.19700 installed. Since I hadn’t added many products I just did a clean install with a new database.
This is what I have learnt.
1. The MagentoConnectManager must have all the extension listed if upgrading from v1.0 to ver 1.0.19700. This I didn’t know when first installing v1.0.
2. After copying the new files to the server, I just followed the instructions at http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/upgrading_magento under the section ‘Upgrading Magento using the MagentoConnect Manager’ to the letter.
3. Now the important thing is that by copying the files to the server no extensions will show up in MagentoConnectManager. So by following the instructions, all the extensions were added.
4. I then downloaded the MagentoConnectManager extension, which is also not installed as an extension in MagentoConnectManager.
5. Now I have all extensions showing in MagentoConnectManager which should mean I can upgrade with MagentoConnectManager next time.
6. Then I added back my custom files (css etc) and everything seems to be working OK. I also did a comparison between the css files to see what changed between the 2 versions (other than my changes).

Now all of this seems obvious to me now, but on the install of ver 1.0, none of the stuff about extensions being installed as PEAR packages (which allows them to appear in MagentoConnectManager) was mentioned.