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How to upgrade to 4.50 release

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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this is with wp 3.3?  did you clear your browser cache?  all the wp js has moved around and thus ours…

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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Yeah this is weird, wordpress up to date 3.3, i checked over those 4 files in my FTP and all have been replaced with the up to date 4.50 release.  Cleared my explorer cache files.  I can access my blog on my site but pretty much all of my links on the forum to get to sub forums, members etc is not accessible.  “404 page not found error” hmm so its just those 4 php files i had to switch over right there isnt any others?, after i did that I clicked on update with my forum on wordpress, which is did, then a configuration message popped up but I overlooked it, so i went to configuration and everything looks normal hmm

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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man I might have to uninstall this plug in, get rid of all simplepress files and start over with the 4.50 release

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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well, no need to get rid of… if you want verify the integrity, just upload all the 4.5.0 files over the top of the existing ones…

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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yeah but hmm, that would wipe out all info right because each forum topic and sub topic should have its own coded page right?  Within the FTP of the Forum folders

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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its like the topic headings and subheadings are there but the actual pages for all of these heads and sub headings within the forum arent there. 

Also if logged in, clicking members is a 404 error and so is trying to click my profile 404 error.  weird!!

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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no. the data is stored in a database… not in files on the server…  deleting or overwriting files will not affect the data…

there is only one page for the forum – the one created in the wp pages…  all the forum content is displayed on this single wp page… its dynamically built from data in the database… the appearance of urls is nothing but url rewrite black magic…

Are you positive you were on 4.4.5 before?  I would suggest uploading the whole 4.5.0 version…. you got your 4.5.0 files from our download page here, right?

do you have link to you site?

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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thats probably what it is.. I wasnt on the latest simple press version before.. didnt know I had to be.  I guess this update is a update from the latest simplepress version.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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you asked what files changes… so of course, I gave you the changes from 4.4.5 to 4.5.0…

what version were you on?? are you sure all your plugins are compatible with wp 3.3?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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As you copied the sf-control.php file manually the first time around then the DB holds that as the version. Then uploading the entire 4.5.0 set of files will no longer perform an upgrade from whatever version you were on before because Spthinks it has been done already.

This can be set manually to force an upgrade but, as Steve asked, for that we need to know what version you were on before.

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
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Well it was either 4.4.5 or 4.3.5, im thinking 4.3.5 since if it was in fact 4.4.5 I wouldn’t be having problems right now..

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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would tend to agree… but one never knows… could be an issue caused by conflict with plugin or theme too…

have you tried uploading the entire 4.5.0?

CR crzy3rdgen
crzy3rdgen
Member

Yeah I uninstalled it then installed the 4.5 complete. Still no go

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Steve: I think he needs to reset the build number back to whatever version he was on before. He copied the 4.5.0 sf-control.php with the new build number but no upgrade script. So the ‘upgrade’ would have just changed the build and version number NOT performed a proper data upgrade. This would have probably been OK had he been on 4.4.5 but if not then it would explain his issue.

Do you agree with this analysis?