MD-PRO 1.0 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS

Upgrading from MD Pro versions earlier than 1.06
[ Details and more information can be read on the MD-homepage ].

This upgrade can be activated whenever you want. In the upgrade process, the tables and contents are examined to see whether they reflect the latest changes.  A change is thus accomplished only if necessary.

The following list shows which changes were made since MD-Pro [alpha]. This information will help you decide whether or not to upgrade.

  1. Database modifications
    • Table

      Field->

      old

      new

      _ew_filemanager   uid pn_uid
      _ew_filemanager   path pn_path

    And naturally much was improved and changed in the program code. The system is faster, more stable and safer.

1. Before you do anything else, make a backup of your database, See MySQL Tools or use phpMyAdmin, and set default theme ExtraLite in admin settings and in your account, chmod 777 config, upload directory and all files/dir content, chmod 777 config.php, modules/AutoTheme/autotheme.cfg. 

2. From the admin panel, deactivate and remove all blocks that are not core blocks

This is list of core blocks:
banners.php, bannermodules.php, big.php, button.php, category.php, ephem.php, finclude.php, fxp.php, html.php, login.php, menu.php, online.php, past.php, php.php, poll.php, related.php, rss2.php, rss.php, search.php, sms.php, stories.php, text.php, thelang.php, topic.php, user.php, userpoints.php, weblinks.php

3. In Settings, deactivate short URLs.

4. Rename the includes/blocks directory to includes/blocksOLD

5. Remove the modules/Autotheme directory

6. Remove the modules/RteMulti directory

7. Remove the modules/NS-MySqlTools directory

8. Unpack the latest distribution on your server or unpack them on your local computer and upload the files to your server

Note that avatars and emoticons have been changed from MDP 1.06 to 1.07 You may delete the prior ones, although deletion is not necessary. Keep in mind that any of your site members will no longer have their chosen avatar if you delete them and they will need to select a new one, or none at all.

9. Go to www.yoursite.com/install.php and follow the upgrade instructions

10. Login as admin, go to modules in admin menu, regenerate and activate all modules

11. Remove install directory and install.php

12. Copy third party blocks from includes/blocksOLD to includes/blocks and activate the blocks. Be sure to copy only third party blocks. If you copy any core blocks, you may disable part of the program

13. When done, delete the includes/blocksOLD directory.

14.In Settings, reactivate short URLs if you were using them.



Please report any bugs you may discover.

Max and Duster