Can you upgrade from 1.5?

[Quazarr]

I would love to test migrating a 1.5 site to 1.6, but I am not certain this is advised yet? I am finding a hard time really locating any information on this. I would have thought it would be a bit easier to find the answers for this question given that many of us will have to do just this same thing.

Am I better to just do a fresh install each time? (please say no!)

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[val1723]

Please read the two articles below to understand a little more about 1.6 server requirements and a tool to upgrade.

http://www.opensourcesupportdesk.com/bl ... ite-top-10

http://www.cocut.cn/jstuff/jextension/3 ... onent.html

[Quazarr]

Thanks for the info! Its very appreciated! Go Joomla!

[MeeDNite]

Please consider that Its not recommended to upgrade your Live Site to J!1.6
its still Beta and possibly has some bugs which could Break your data.

Regards,
Milad

[lescal]

Hi,

if I got it well, if you got a couple of big important components (as CB, Agora Forum, or that kind of things) on your J1.5 site, you're pretty much screwed, even with a migrating tool.

I'm wondering if the best approach, for someone who knows how to handle databases and SQL requests, wouldn't be to create a new database / new site installation (in a sub-directory of main site) and install J1.6 as a "brand new site". Then migrating data table by table, adapting sql export requests before hand, depending on tables' new structures. Might sound a bit tedious, but at least, you control everything.

For the site I'm managing, I'll have to wait for a good 1.6 native forum component in any case, but we'd really appreciate features of the new ACL and nested categories to cite a few.

So what I'm gonna do is to install a new site with J1.6b6, and begin to work out the database's new structure... (and this, at least will have been done

Best,
Scal

[DaFoot]

So there are plans when 1.6 becomes release version for an upgrade/migration 1.5.x -> 1.6 tool then? Excellend ))