Failed upgrade from 0.6-pl2 (need suggestions)

[pixeldown]

Hi everyone.

Quite a while before the holidays I tried to upgrade my Serendipity blog installed at http://www.pixeldown.net to make use of anti-spam plugins.

First, I tried to telnet in and expand the files from the tar file to the root of my site (/public_html/) but it *always* extracted to /public_html/serendipity/. I tried to copy the files from that directory to /public_html/, which I thought worked.

But it didn't. It only copied files located in /public_html/serendipity/ and no sub directories, so when I attempted to upgrade, fit hit the shan.

Of course, I had made a complete backup prior to attempting the upgrade, so I simply restored my site to 0.6-pl2.

I tried 3 times afterwards to extract or copy the new files to /public_html/ but to no avail. It's really messed up... some new files are kicking around and some are old. I've bitten off more than I can chew. :S

I have telnet access to my web space, and as you can tell, I'm not proficient with *nix or tar/gzip. I tried in vain for hours. (no kidding). So now I'm at the point where the upgrade won't initialize.

Anyhow - my question to the forum is how can I upgrade? I'm so lost in what's been copied and what has not. Each time I attempt to upgrade it *always* fails in some way.

Keep in mind, I would like to keep my existing entries, as well as the comments.

Also, I'm changing hosting providers, (for various reasons) so if that information simplifies things, then great!

Thanks in advance.

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Chris.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

There are two ways to get it to work:

1.

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cd /public_html
tar -xvzf serendipity-0.7.1.tar.gz
cd serendipity
cp -R * ..
cd /public_html
rm -rf serendipity

2. You extract the files on a seperate host and FTP them over to your new path.

I do not know of a tar option to strip the first directory name, so you need to use the recursive copy. Recursive move won't do since mv does not move subdirectories which already exist.

Regards,
Garvin

[pixeldown]

Worked like it should have in the first place. Man that was easy!

Thanks so very much!

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Chris.