LinPHA Update Instructions (v. 1.0beta3) 31 Oct. 2004
UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS
WARNING: DO NEVER SKIP A RELEASE WHEN UPDATING FROM PRIOR VERSIONS
AND REMEMBER TO BACKUP ALL DATA FIRST!!!
(LINPHA DATABASE INCLUSIVE)
To update the 1.0beta2 LinPHA release, please follow these steps:
- If you are logged in as admin, please logout first
- Remember to backup your CSS files (if changed)
- Untar/unzip LinPHA-1.0beta3 and copy all new files and directories over the old ones.
(NOT the /albums and /sql subfolders!)
- You are done :-)
To update the 1.0beta1 LinPHA release, please follow these steps:
- If you are logged in as admin, please logout first
- Remember to backup your CSS files (if changed)
- Untar/unzip LinPHA-1.0beta2 and copy all new files and directories over the old ones.
(NOT the /albums and /sql subfolders!)
- You are done :-)
- Maybe you have to reload your browser twice
- NOTE: due a necesarry recalculate of md5sums it may TAKE SOME TIME
until the LinPHA startpage appears...
To update a 0.9.4 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- If you are logged in as admin, please logout first
- Remember to backup your CSS files (if changed)
- Untar/unzip LinPHA-1.0beta1 and copy all new files and directories over the old ones.
(NOT the /albums and /sql subfolders!)
- You are done :-)
- Maybe you have to reload your browser twice
- NOTE: due DB changes it may TAKE SOME TIME when you revisit LinPHA the first time
To update a 0.9.3 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- If you are logged in as admin, please logout first
- Remember to backup your CSS files (if changed)
- Untar/unzip LinPHA-0.9.4 and copy all new files and directories over the old ones.
(NOT the /albums subfolder!)
- You are done :-)
- Maybe you have to reload your browser twice
- NOTE: due DB changes it may TAKE SOME TIME when you revisit LinPHA the first time
- PostgreSQL NOTE: Automatic update of /sql/db_connect.php will fail for PostgreSQL users.
You have to edit /sql/db_connect.php by hand or do a fresh install, sorry!
To update a 0.9.2 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- If you are logged in as admin, please logout first
- Remember to backup your CSS files (if changed) and see README.styles
for additional tags since 0.9.2
- Untar LinPHA-0.9.3 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- You are done :-)
- NOTE: due DB changes it may TAKE SOME TIME when you revisit LinPHA the first time
To update a 0.9.1 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- Remenber to backup your CSS files (if changed)
- Untar LinPHA-0.9.2 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- You are done :-)
- NOTE: due DB changes it may TAKE SOME TIME when you revisit LinPHA the first time
To update a 0.9.0 LinPHA version (or any other pre-release) please follow these steps:
- Untar LinPHA-0.9.1 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- You are done :-)
To update a 0.8.0 LinPHA version (or any other pre-release) please follow these steps:
- Untar LinPHA-0.9.0 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- You are done :-)
To update a 0.7.0 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- Untar LinPHA-0.8.0 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- Remove the files:
install.php, sec_stage_install.php, third_stage_install.php, forth_stage_install.php
from the LinPHA root. (they moved into /install folder)
- You are done :-)
To update a 0.6.0 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- Untar LinPHA-0.6.0 and copy all new files over the old ones.
- You are done :-)
To update a 0.5.0 or 0.5.1 LinPHA version please follow these steps:
- Rename the file db_connect.inc to db_connect.php in the /sql
subdir of your LinPHA installation. (REQUIRED)
- Untar LinPHA-0.6.0 and copy all new files over the old ones. (REQUIRED)
- For major speed improvements you have to add indexes to the following
columns in the linpha photos table:
name, filename, description (RECOMMENDED)
(best use a MySQL admin tool like PhpMyAdmin)
Because of database changes, any version prior 0.5.0 needs to be
replaced by a new clean INSTALL, sorry.
enjoy, bzrudi71