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The posts on this forum look bleak for REV19700.  If you have had a successful install, please list your steps to success and let us know if this was an upgrade that allowed you to keep your customizations or if this was a complete reinstall.

My experience was going to my hosting provider (SimpleHelix) “installatron”, selecting upgrade Magento to the new script and seeing a RED note :  “The selected version, or a version between it and the installed version, does not support upgrading. Check the script’s website to see if a migration tool is available.” [Picture Attached]

Then after reading all the posts, I decided not to upgrade until there is some proof I am not going to waste a large amount of time troubleshooting.

So, please share your experience here for the group....

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exactly the same here roco - even on simplehelix too.

I HAVE to upgrade though, as I need the table rates postage asap.  also the lack of backup really scares me.

come on guys, someone give us some good news about 19700!

-s

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/upgrading_magento

I just did the first series of steps…

It’s pretty easy.

did you upgrade an active store?  how did you import the product/customer data?

Same exact result as ROCO.  (see screen shot above) On SimpleHelix....  Using MagentoConnect.... getting on this list in case someone posts a solution.

Del

I’ve installed a copy of 19700 along side my running 1.0 - but how do I migrate the data over?  I copied the original database to the new store’s database - but still no products appear.  any clues?

hmmm........  sounds like maybe its easy to install a fresh copy? but what about those of us that have put a lot of work into the 1.0 store.  has anyone had a successful UPGRADE?  and what steps did you take??

@roco: in our tests upgrades went successfully as well as clean installations.

By the way, clean filesystem installation could be considered an upgrade if it is given an existing older version of Magento database during install wizard, as it will attempt to upgrade it to the new version structure.

File customizations should be done always as separate files, so they can be copied over to the new Magento copy’s directory.

Actually it is always a preferred way to upgrade customized mission critical application - using a sandbox.

1. Create a copy of your database.
2. Make copy of your installation and try to upgrade.
3. If the upgrade doesn’t work, make a clean install and use the database copy information credentials in install wizard.
4. Copy your file customizations over to the new copy if clean install was made.
5. Test and make sure everything works as expected.
6. Identify and resolve all problems before making the upgrade to the live copy.

Thanks Moshe - If upgrades are successful, can you explain the graphic above, and why an upgrade from 1.0 is not supported by the hosting provider? Also there are a lot of people posting problems into this forum with upgrades to the new revision, and we haven’t seen a success story here yet, or surefire method for upgrading.  I think there are great things ahead for Magento but it would be nice to hear more success stories and methods related to this upgrade.......

- roco

First problem is that there has been no tested guideline supplyed to us to upgrade to this version. I thought i had problems when my international tablerate shipping didnt work, now ive got problems. >:-(

@roco: i can not explain the graphic above as it is based on a decision of simplehelix hosting, which i have no connection to.

Magento is a set of scripts and runtime experience is affected by server environment factors, e.g.:
* versions of server software (php, mysql, apache)
* hosting specific configurations
* file permissions
* etc.

I hope you can understand that it is unrealistic to test and cover all possible combinations of factors above.

I can understand that.......  It would still be great to have a best practice guide for installing.  Thanks for your input into this Moshe.  Now I am just hoping more folks post their techniques for upgrading success here.

- roco

Pretty convoluted but here is how I finally did get the upgrade to install on SimpleHelix.

First installed MagentoConnect Manager from core extensions. 

Then duplicated entire frontend skin and application files for my modified themes so my custom themes contained all the directories and files that are also contained in the “default” theme. 

I then downloaded “ModernTheme” from core extensions using MagentoConnect Manager.  That exercise also brought down the upgrade files for version 1.0.19702 and installed them. 

BTW, if you do this you must paste the extension key “magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern-1.0.19702” to get an install with Modern Theme.  The extension key on the core extension page is incorrect as it’s missing the .19702 extension.

I think you could get away with this proceedure without completely duplicating your theme files I’m not sure.  I was afraid to try because I didn’t want to chance loosing my theme modifications.

I told you it was convoluted.  Good Luck!

Mmmm… did you try upgrading Magento from MagentoConnect Manager or from shell (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/upgrading_magento) ?

I think that would upgrade it without regard tof simplehelix’ control panel restrictions.

BTW, if you do this you must paste the extension key “magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern-1.0.19702” to get an install with Modern Theme.  The extension key on the core extension page is incorrect as it’s missing the .19702 extension.

Modern theme has stability “beta”. If your downloader’s configured Settings / Preferred Stability is “stable”, it will not download it per your instructions.

You would have to either change Preferred Stability to “beta” or explicitly add “-beta” suffix to the package you’d like to install. Like this:
magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern-beta

Ok, i did

1 Extract and upload all the files it contains to your server
2 Delete var/cache and var/session directories
3 Point your browser to any Magento page
4 Database upgrades should happen automatically

Now i wonder if there should be some processing on the screen on “Database upgrades should happen automatically”?
There was nothing to see, the shop just appeared.

In the Admin there it says still Magento Version 1.0
How can i verify if its now 19700?

Because in the release notes it says “fixed ‘use category urls in product urls’”, but i still have this problem
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/5722/

@Paradise: in the admin footer there should be “Magento ver. 1.0.19700”