Upgrading procedure

  • terryfic

    (@terryfic)


    17 years, 10 months ago

    I created custom templates several months ago to match the look of a website. I’d like to upgrade to 2.5 now. Is it okay to create a second directory (i.e., domain.com/blog2) to install the new version, while keeping domain.com/blog live with my custom pages? I.e., can the database be accessed by two installations of WP? This way I can compare to see if anything is breaking with the version upgrade. (The blog has not been linked to the website yet, so there are no real posts there, nor danger of two people posting at once.)

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    2.5 makes changes to the database, so that plan is not going to work.

    how about this:
    do a second install of the same version of WP that your first blog is at, using a different database in a different folder. Then import the first database into the second database. Since it will be in a different folder you are changing the URL. Read this http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

    After you get the 2nd install working, upgrade it to 2.5.1 and take it from there.

    You can always export the database from the 2nd and load it into the first when you are ready to go live with the 1st.

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