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Hi all,

I have an interesting but weird problem after I migrated my blog to another server.

I copied all files from my server to the new server (site5.com) and then imported the SQl dump from my old server.

Off course I had to change some paths and after I did this it seemed that most things where working. I had to reinstall some plugins (they were showing data in the front-end but in the plugin manager they showed errors)..

However, I have the following peculiar problem: in the backend suddenly S9y tells me I use version 1.1, while I am 99,9% sure I upgraded to 1.2:

Also, suddenly I get this error in the Manage style tabs:

style="color: #cccccc">Requirements failed: Serendipity 1.2

However, from the front-end I can use the template chooser and I can choose Bulletproof as a template, not only that: I have configured it and it shows right...

Any ideas on what is going wrong? I very much like to set Bulletproof as my default template, but I can't...

Check your serendipity_config_local.inc.php ... IIRC it contains the version number. Looks like it wasn't updated correctly. Could be due to a problem with file permissions.

mattsches wrote:Check your serendipity_config_local.inc.php ... IIRC it contains the version number. Looks like it wasn't updated correctly. Could be due to a problem with file permissions.

Hi, thanks for the info. Another post here actually helped me out too (involving the same steps actually).

I opened the serendipity_config.inc.php and config local and changed the version from 1.1 to 1.2 and that fixed it

Hi!

If your serendipity_config.inc.php contained the version number '1.1' then you DEFINITELY were running serendipity 1.1 and not 1.2! Because that file is never locally modified, it comes straight frmo the s9y release package.

So better check if all your files are valid 1.2 version files.

Regards,
Garvin

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

If your serendipity_config.inc.php contained the version number '1.1' then you DEFINITELY were running serendipity 1.1 and not 1.2! Because that file is never locally modified, it comes straight frmo the s9y release package.

So better check if all your files are valid 1.2 version files.

Regards,
Garvin

I haven't been able to see anything that wasn't working. I don't know if you have ever worked with Coppermine (photoalbum) but it has a upgrade wizard and a build-in check that shows any PHP file versions that are not right...

I was wondering: why can't you do a upgrade using SPARTACUS? It works for plugins? It would be great; no messing with FTP and CHOWN or CHMOD...

Hi!

I was wondering: why can't you do a upgrade using SPARTACUS? It works for plugins? It would be great; no messing with FTP and CHOWN or CHMOD...

Because this would require full write privileges for every s9y file - a large security risk. Sine s9y has very many little files, fetching them via Spartacus would also take ages.

Many things could go wrong when fetching files via FTP, and having the core rely on it could render the whole s9y installation unusable.

Regards,
Garvin