Upgrading SVN Elgg Installs

October 30, 2008 in Elgg, open source, Social Networking, Technology | 7 comments

If you used Subversion to install Elgg using SSH, upgrading to Elgg 1.1 stable is a snap. Simply log in and:

cd yourelggdirectory

svn sw https://code.elgg.org/elgg/releases/core/elgg1.1/ .

Make sure you include the space and period. Press enter, then agree to accept the security certificate typing t for temporarily or p for permanently. The files will scroll quickly as they are transferred from server to server.

When the transfer is done, open your browser and go to yourelggdirectory.upgrade.php

You should get a message saying the database has been upgraded and land on the login page. Log in and check your version. It should say 1.1 Stable.

Always have a backup of both the files and the database in case something goes wrong. I have done this svn upgrade with the original 1.0 release, and the 1.1 RC1 from the trunk. Note that older themes may exhibit minor quirks.

That’s it. It only takes a minute or two.

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  1. SGr33n’s avatar

    SGr33n on October 31, 2008 at 5:37 am

    Hi Steve,

    A trouble here:
    httpdocs# svn sw https://code.elgg.org/elgg/releases/core/elgg1.1/
    svn: ‘.’ is not a working copy

    :|

    Can you help me?

    Tnx :)

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  2. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on October 31, 2008 at 11:02 am

    It is really tough to help with so little information.

    Is there an .svn checkout folder in each of the directories and subdirectories?

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  3. SGr33n’s avatar

    SGr33n on October 31, 2008 at 11:19 am

    no, should it be?

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  4. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on October 31, 2008 at 11:41 am

    If you installed the software using subversion in the first place–yes. That is the only way this process will work.

    Fear not, I will work out a procedure for taking an existing standard installation into a nice easy to upgrade SVN based installation very soon.

    Meanwhile, you can look at this if you want to see how this is accomplished with another program.

    http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/27/svn-and-ssh-for-installing-and-updating-sites/

    It should work pretty much the same, only I need to put aside the files that Elgg writes to during installation.

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  5. SGr33n’s avatar

    SGr33n on October 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Thank You :)

    Anyway I’m just developing some ad-hoc plugin before populating elgg, so I already updated it uploading every file to the server, whithout fear of lose something :P

    About this, If I edit some file of elgg standard plugins, like profile or status, If I use svn then, will update them? can I loose my edits?

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  6. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on October 31, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    I use the core install and take care of the mods (other than those that come with the core) manually. SVN will not impact the files you manage manually.

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  7. SGr33n’s avatar

    SGr33n on October 31, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Thank you Steve :)

    Reply

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