Upgrading 6.2 to 6.4/6.5
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Pre Install Procedures For UPGRADING from 6.2 to 6.4/6.5
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Step 1: Make a complete back up of your current images folder, and save it to your hard drive (desktop). |
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| Step 2:Using your FTP program, browse to your templates folder and click to view the files inside. |
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Step 3: Once your in the templates folder, download your current template and save it to your computer. |
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Step 4: Log into your current sites admin (the one not upgraded) and goto configuration>site maintenance. |
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Step 5: Clcik the edit button, and place your store into maintenance mode "true" |
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Step 6: Next goto Design Controls>InfoBox Configure |
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Step 7: You will want to disable the information table infobox, by pressing the "red" inactive icon. The information_table info box is not supported anymore in 6.4, thus it will need to be disabled, otherwise you will get an error on the upgrade. |
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Step 8: Make sure your 6.2 template has the pages.php in the boxes folder, follow the path below. |
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Step 9: Click your template name, then proceed to the next step. |
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Step 10: Goto your templates boxes folder, and click it, you need to make sure it has a pages.php file, see next step. |
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Step 11: Make sure your template has the pages.php in the boxes folder, follow the path below. |
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Step 12: If your site does not have the pages.php file, goto /templates/default/boxes/ and copy that file to your desktop, then go back to your /templates/your template/boxes/ and copy that file to that location. Follow steps 12, 13, 14 and 15 |
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Step 13: Now that your have copied the /templates/default/boxes/pages.php to your desktop, proceed back to your custom template boxes folder, follow the path below. |
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Step 14: Click your custom templates/yourtemplate/boxes/ folder, and then upload that pages.php from your desktop in step 12 above from your desktop, and upload it back to your custom templates boxes folder. |
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Step 15: Now your /templates/yourtemplate/boxes/ folder will have the pages.php file. This is needed, beacuse 6.4 does not use the information_table.php info box. |
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| Step 16: Your template will also need the /templates/content/pages.tpl.php file. To copy this file you will/may have to copy it from the content folder below. Follow the path outlined below. |
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Step 17: Copy this file from the stock content folder to your /templates/your template/content/ folder. Your template may not be using a content folder, so just make sure that you have that file in the /content/ folder. It may be this path /templates/content/pages.tpl.php or this path /templates/your template/content/pages.tpl.php |
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In most cases, when upgrading from CRE 6.2 to 6.4 software, the template will also require some tweaking. Not all 6.2 infoboxes fail when upgrading but some do if using information_tables.php. If you are using PRO you must use a PRO template. You cannot use a B2B template on a PRO store and visa versa.
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