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Hi,

There are a number of posts about similar things, but I didn’t have any luck with them, it seems.

Expression Engine 1.6.1
20071114

PHP 5.3.3

We did what I thought would be a simple copy and paste of the client site from an old server to a new server.

Initial problem after copying was that the CSS/images had been stripped out of the login page, and I don’t think you could login. We fixed this by changing the full paths in the mysql “exp_sites” thing from eg:

/usr/local/www/webs/...

to

/usr/local/www/data/...

Which is the config on the new server, and that fixed up the css on the login page, and allowed us to login.

However, upon login there is nothing at all displayed. It logs in, but nothing is displayed. The source code shows nothing at all. FYI the link after login is eg:

sitename/s_y_s_t_e_m/index.php?S=3c1a13f61c08b3aeb804e82c3f1ca52382f13eb2

I tried some of the other suggestions about changing some settings in the config.php file, deleting cookies, resetting cache, etc, but none of it seemed to work.

I feel like we are so close with this - surely it should be something very simple?

Our developers reviewed it overnight (local time here is 8:20AM now), and they thought perhaps some files were missing. I had a quick look in the system directory and on first look there doesn’t seem to be any small or 0 byte files.

A simple transfer has suddenly become complicated, it seems. If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

Hi, Chris.

You’re quite a few builds/versions back from the current 1.6.x branch. I’d recommend upgrading to 1.6.9 which should have less of an issue with the version of PHP you’re running.

Or you could go back to PHP4, which might be an option.

Also, Have you seen: EEWiki:// HowTo Determine Memory Limits How much memory is allocated to PHP?

Hi Sue,

Thanks for the tip.

We’ve been sitting on this the past few days, deciding what to do.

Those were our sentiments too in the end - got to a point where we were basically starting to recode the entire system to work on new PHP which is a bit silly obviously 😊

We do not have any other experience with EE with other clients, but are considering our options for within EE. We have a developer standing by to do what is necessary to get this running. I had some questions about the process.

Also if I didn’t mention, we took over development from someone else so I don’t know what exactly we are entitled to with our licence.

1) I recall seeing in the admin when it was working, something like “Version 1.6.9 now available - click here to upgrade”. With 1.6.1 what would our licence entitle us to? Just everything within the 1.6 range or above? Eg, 2 and so on?

2) Does upgrading from 1.6.1 to 1.6.9 mean we have to recode or redevelop the themes and all the site custom code at all? Or is it fairly straightforward? Our developers can read the nuts and bolts of it I am just wondering how long we should expect the upgrade to take (client is not in a position to splurge). Ie, for an experienced programmer with limited EE skills would it be a 2-5 hour type process or a 20-50 hour type process? I am hoping the former 😊

3) Conversely, does upgrading to 2.1 require recoding of templates and so on, or is it just a bit more work than going to 1.6.9?

Appreciate your general thoughts on the above.

Thanks,

Chris

Hi, Chris.

1) I recall seeing in the admin when it was working, something like “Version 1.6.9 now available - click here to upgrade”. With 1.6.1 what would our licence entitle us to? Just everything within the 1.6 range or above? Eg, 2 and so on?

It depends. Chances are you’d need to pay to upgrade to the most recent version. It depends on what the expiration date of your download account is set to.

2) Does upgrading from 1.6.1 to 1.6.9 mean we have to recode or redevelop the themes and all the site custom code at all? Or is it fairly straightforward? Our developers can read the nuts and bolts of it I am just wondering how long we should expect the upgrade to take (client is not in a position to splurge). Ie, for an experienced programmer with limited EE skills would it be a 2-5 hour type process or a 20-50 hour type process? I am hoping the former smile

Again, this is another it depends answer. If you haven’t modified any core code, then you should just be able to upgrade. It should be less than an hour. The most important thing is to have a good MySQL backup before upgrading.

3) Conversely, does upgrading to 2.1 require recoding of templates and so on, or is it just a bit more work than going to 1.6.9?

Depends. 😊 The upgrade will change the templates as it upgrades, but there is also the additional issue of third party add-ons. Are you using any? Have those add-ons been updated to work with EE2.1?