Re: How to update FarCry 5.0 to 5.0.1?

Jeff Coughlin <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:18:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.farcry.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
For future reference, developer questions like this are best suited  
for the [farcry-dev] mailing list.  The [farcry-user] mailing list is  
meant for general users and content editors of FarCry.  No worries  
though.  Welcome :)

> OK, so assuming I'm correct in thinking that I now have the latest
> build, how do I update?  Do I just copy everything into the core and
> overwrite what is there?  Am I going to have to go in and edit
> anything?


This is the process that I usually do:
1. Stop the CF service
2. move the old core folder to a backup location
3. move the new core in place
5. If updating any plugins, I do steps 2 & 3 with them as well
6. start CF

If, however, you don't have these luxuries (maybe you're using a  
shared hosting environment), then skip steps 1 - 6 and attempt to  
overwrite the files. (I've been working with a test account on a  
shared hosting service to see if I could get FarCry 5 working on a  
shared host.  So far (for upgrading from 5.0 to 5.0.1) I've just  
zipped up what I needed, uploaded the ZIP via FTP, called tech  
support, and had them extract the files (otherwise uploading all of  
those files individually in FTP takes forever :) ).

7. update the application scope (add ?updateapp=1 to the URL or use  
the GUI features (checkboxes) for the same effect. You need to be  
logged in as an admin for this to work).
8. Check the COAPI tools to see if any Types or Rules need to be  
deployed (Admin-only feature).

Thats should do it.

> and Jeff, if you are reading this, thanks very much for what you
> do for the FarCry community!


Thanks.  But the guys at Daemon deserve more credit than I (they're  
the brains behind most of this stuff :) ).

--
Jeff Coughlin
Web Application Developer
http://jeffcoughlin.com

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