Upgrade from V2 to latest?

Hi Ton, Looks like you have all the stuff you need to get the site up locally.

First, i’d import the DB then add the database credentials in the /cms/expressionengine/config/database.php And have a look in /cms/expressionengine/config/config.php to see if stuff needs to be updated / changed Put all the files/folders in the public_html folder (or whatever it’s called in xampp Make sure you are running php 5.6

This should be enough to get it running

If you have a login it should work. If not, you’ll have to manually edit the exp_members table

Ee2 stored path info in a lot of places, so you might need to change this in several places (like upload directory definitions etc)

Also check in index.php and admin.php to make sure the system path is named correctly. By default it’s ./system but using your existing files it should be set correctly to $system_path = './cms';

https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/best-practices.html#renaming-the-system-directory

Thanx Rob, I have a bump in the installation. I created a license number on the ee site. But the installation keeps comming back with error: “Not a valid licence number”. how come?

is it because i try to link to an existing filled database?

thanx

I now have this situation:

I have a local (empty) installation of EEv7 running on a local Xampp server I have a database with all the content of V2 in the database

When I connect the two I get a database error 149

How to “upgrade” so that the website shows the content from the (old) v2 database??

Any help is welcome!

thanx

To move forward, you’ll need the ExpressionEngine V2 core files. You can try to find the right version in backups or EllisLab’s archives if you don’t have them (raft wars). However, they may not offer downloads anymore, so you may need to look in third-party sources or ask the client if they have the files.

When I try to install the V2 files, I run into a problem with the licence numer: I created one on the EE website, but it keeps refusing my number.. Maybe because it is meant for later versions??

Help is appreciated thanx

If you are using the EE2 files, and connect those to your EE2 database through, you should not get the installer view. If you do get that view, you’re probably not connected to the database. Either that, or the installer folder is present in the EE files

I am trying to retrace a blank installation and then connect to the old database. What file contains the database credentials?

You should put the cms folder from the old site in the root of your public_html this file contains the database connection settings: /cms/expressionengine/config/database.php

Path info & other settings are to be found here: /cms/expressionengine/config/config.php

After that, open the index.php and admin.php files in the root of your public_html and check for this line: $system_path = ‘./cms’;

In EE2 days there was “Focuslab LLC config master” or something like that which was widely used. You could check if there’s no traces of that somewhere

if needed i can always try to help you out with teamviewer

Do you have an example of this config.php??

<?php if ( ! defined(‘BASEPATH’)) exit(‘No direct script access allowed’);

$active_group = ‘expressionengine’;

$active_record = TRUE;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘hostname’] = ‘localhost’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘username’] = ‘my_username;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘password’] = ‘My_password123’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘database’] = ‘My_database’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘dbdriver’] = ‘mysqli’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘pconnect’] = FALSE;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘dbprefix’] = ‘exp_’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘swap_pre’] = ‘exp_’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘db_debug’] = TRUE;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘cache_on’] = FALSE;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘autoinit’] = FALSE;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘char_set’] = ‘utf8’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘dbcollat’] = ‘utf8_general_ci’;

$db[‘expressionengine’][‘cachedir’] = ‘/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/xxx/website/system/expressionengine/cache/db_cache/’;

/* End of file database.php / / Location: ./system/expressionengine/config/database.php */