Guest saturnnights Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 My host provides Fantastico! for installation of CubeCart - I just basically clicked a couple of buttons and, Ta-Da! There it was... Uh, version 3.0.8... And my admin panel is flashing that an upgrade is available. My questions, based on what I know at this point (looked for "upgrade" and various other keywords to no avail) are: a) Is there an automatic upgrade/download to fix this, or do I have to rattle my host's cage? Not that they'll necessarily care about a fractional version upgrade; In ZenCart, upgrades will wipe out any custom work you've done, unless you've established a complex set of template folders. Is this the case with CubeCart? Thanks - I'm digging into this deeply today... Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saturnnights Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 HI Mark, All versions of CubeCart can be found at the Downloads tab at the top of the page. It generally isnt recommeded that you install CubeCart from Fantasico because they take so long to upgrade to the latest version version. Regarding the upgrade process, it all depends on whether you have modified your store or not, if not then its basically just uploading the latest files over the old ones and its done but if you have made modifications (not skins), then it is a little more long winded. There is a changelog within the CubeCart upgrade downloads that tell you what to do. Thanks - my host confirmed that I can do it myself... Now for (hopefully) my most ignorant question: Why do I see, at my root level, a /www folder and a /public_html with identical files? When I was experiementing with ZenCart, I made my changes to the /www folder, not the /public_html folder, but after looking at the install paperwork for CubeCart, I think that I should've been working in /public_html? Also, I've downloaded the latest version and although I thought it was 3.0.9, I see a 3.0.10 - which is the stable version? May as well figure out the upgrade before I start to configure this thing Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saturnnights Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 The latest version has the latest security fixes so its probably best to go with that. www. and public_html are basically the same thing and i have no idea why they are both there, its the same with my hosting company, i do all my work on the public_html folder though. Thanks Umm... What is the basic process people use to update their cart? I've downloade 3.0.10 and it looks as though I need to upload right over top of the existing cart/site? In the future, when I've actually configured it, that won't work, so I see mention of WinMerge, but not sure how that works either because it only compares local files. Would I download the current cart, compare/merge, then upload it over top of the old one? Sorry for the clueless questions, but I'm also supposed to be running a business and my brain is fried... Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 The latest version has the latest security fixes so its probably best to go with that. www. and public_html are basically the same thing and i have no idea why they are both there, its the same with my hosting company, i do all my work on the public_html folder though. Thanks Umm... What is the basic process people use to update their cart? I've downloade 3.0.10 and it looks as though I need to upload right over top of the existing cart/site? In the future, when I've actually configured it, that won't work, so I see mention of WinMerge, but not sure how that works either because it only compares local files. Would I download the current cart, compare/merge, then upload it over top of the old one? Sorry for the clueless questions, but I'm also supposed to be running a business and my brain is fried... Mark If you don't make any modifications to your store (other than anything in the skins folder), then you should always be able to upgrade by just uploading the new files and overwriting the old ones. If there's ever anything else that you need to do (for example upgrade your database), then there will be obvious instructions for doing that. The only time you should ever need to use WinMerge or manually update you files would be if you modify the standard installation. "www" is the conventional name for your public HTML directory (where files the outside world can see are stored). However a lot of servers are setup to use a directory called "public_html" (or something else - on my servers they use "username-www"). So on these servers you will always find an alias of that public HTML directory called "www" (since this is what people are asking for when they type "www.whatever.com"). So for practical purposes you can use the two interchangably. If you upload a new file to "public_html" and then go to the "www" directory you will see it there. They are functionally equivalent for file management and most everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest walmarc Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Hi Upgrading 3.0.8 to 3.0.10 is a 2 stage process: Look at the following text file instructions to upgrade 3.0.8 to 3.0.9. Then go to http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....showtopic=17338 and download the 3.0.9. to 3.0.10 changed files only.zip Unzip and upload those files and your done! Upgrade_CC_308_to_309.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saturnnights Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Thanks everybody! I downloaded both 3.0.9 and 3.0.10 and did the "changed files only" version of the upgrade. Both steps took me about ten minutes (and that's on only my first cup of coffee). Pretty slick. When I logged into my admin panel, it's showing that I'm fully updated and all seems to be well. Many thanks! Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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