Sure. I’ve moved the site to a new server, and all works fine, but I now need to upgrade from 1.5.2 to 1.6.3 (and will have to do 1.6.4 next). Having followed the instructions, the upgrade to 1.6.0 goes through OK, but when I try to upgrade to 1.6.1, I get the error about the exp_sites table already existing. It seems to be trying to run ud_160.php again. That’s the file that shows up in the PHP error messages.
Both config.php and config_bak.php are getting updated though. Just seems like update.php still wants to do the same update again and again.
I found that by renaming ud_160.php to ud_160.php.txt, as someone had suggested in another thread, I was able to get to the end of the upgrade process, but then the site was not working (blank front-end, blank control panel).
I’ll try again next week when I’m working for this client again. I feel like I’m getting closer. I was using the old pages module on 1.5.2, but I’ve followed the instructions there too before running this upgrade.
On a related issue, when I take a backup of the database, and restore on the new server, all my apostrophes and quote marks are changed to a funny question mark character. I guess this is something to do with non-matching character sets, but I tried a few approaches and it still keeps happening. I took the backup using PHPmyadmin, and restored using mysql on the command line. Again, any help gratefully received.
