Hi Sunny, I just did this myself from 0.7.4, so maybe this will help you. Go into PHPmyadmin for the database in question. Export the data. (I exported it about 5 times in different ways just to be sure I wouldn't destroy it.) Click on the database name, then click on the SQL tab at the top of the screen. From there you can upload a set of SQL instructions (like those contained in db/laconica.sql) and it'll perform those instructions. I think for 0.7.3 you might have to drop every table first, and then run db/laconica.sql, but I'm not certain since I went from 0.7.4, which has a handy upgrade script (db/074to080.sql).
If you do have to rebuild your database completely, then you can reinsert the data from the export file you made. However, if I remember correctly, there was a one column difference in one of the tables from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4 which caused me a headache. So maybe someone could talk you through upgrading to 0.7.4 and then it's not too difficult to jump to 0.8.0 -Matt Taylor http://hap.pi.ly 2009/7/23 Sunny Chow <[email protected]>: > Hi > > > > I wish to upgrade my site to Laconica 0.8.0 from 0.7.3. > > > > I’m not a programmer and have no idea how to do the upgrade and rebuild the > database from a mysql client, etc using the Readme’s prescribed method of > running a script as in: > > ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/laconica.sql > > > > I have access to cPanel and phpmyadmin – can I rebuild the database using > these and if so, could you tell me how please? > > > > Thank you! > > > > - Sunny Chow > > www.tweetlah.sg > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > > -- Small Random Acts of Animal Kindness - Sponsor Beth http://ur1.ca/2g0r What is this? http://snap.pi.ly/p1Hf2 ( Create your short URLs at http://snap.pi.ly ) _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
