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I am looking at installing Serendipty on my GoDaddy account. It is one of the available Blogs I can install using their control panel. They use version 8.2. Since this is new to me, I always prefer going with the latest version (I have plenty of time to fall behind later which I have downloaded and installed on a test server in my lab.

I looked at the directory structure they installed on my account and what I have on my test server and it looks quite the same.

Is it safe to presume that I can just replace their version (8.2) with the new 1.0 and just keep their "serendipity_config_local.inc.php"

Hi!

Yes, you can usually do that. Serendipity will then detect that you are upgrading from 0.8.2 to 1.0 and run the upgrader for you.

If you already have content in your godaddy install, you should try to make a database dump before!

Best regards,
Garvin

That's good.

No data brand new.

I was going to try anyway. What damage could I posssibly do? None!

I have Godaddy. I would NOT use their install of serendipity from the admin panel. I would install it yourself onto your FTP directly. I use godaddy's SQL Database only. The more control you have the better.

Don't understand. Isn't that what I am planning on doing.

I will try overwriting their serendipty directory with the one I got here.

I am just looking at Serendipty some more on a server in my lab. Trying this and that. I like to get comformable at first.

Am I missing something? Hope not.

bobbb wrote:Don't understand. Isn't that what I am planning on doing.

I will try overwriting their serendipty directory with the one I got here.

I am just looking at Serendipty some more on a server in my lab. Trying this and that. I like to get comformable at first.

Am I missing something? Hope not.

Oh well it sounded like you were going to use their server side install instead of just using your own.

Well I did do that. It setup the MySQL database and v0.82. So now I am going to dump over it. I read there is a security problem that is fixed in version 0.84. so...

PerfectCr wrote:I have Godaddy. I would NOT use their install of serendipity from the admin panel. I would install it yourself onto your FTP directly. I use godaddy's SQL Database only. The more control you have the better.

I have GoDaddy as well. What are the advantages to installing yourself as opposed to installing from the GD control panel?

Instead of getting their antiquated 0.82 version, you get the shiny-new stable secure 1.0 version. Or even 1.1, if you want to go for the cutting edge.

Of course, you might want to install their version first, just so you get all the correct setup and database without having to do it manually. Serendipity will gladly update from any older version to any newer one with a single click.