ok, blonde question: how to upgrade to 7?

I mean, not to have to re-install the whole website and dump the database (with all the problems that might arise). I tried to find documentation (ha!) on this and couldn't.

I'm sure people will jump in to help a blonde, but you have to tell us what version you are currently using.

Rob

Dolphin 6.1.5. I'm psychic.

Lol, no. I had a perfectly working 6.1.5 until w 1/2 hours ago. Now I have a non-working 6.1.6.

I don't suppose you had customized your Dolphin 6.1.5 site beyond BoonEx's options, did you?

Depends what you mean by "customized". I didn't add any modules or anything - was waiting for the famous 7. I DID customize though the profile fields (added more) and also made a few more pages. And of course, re-arranged the homepage and customized the template.

Well, that shouldn't cause you to lose an arm or a leg. What are the specific problems you are having?

Day, just keep going.  You have the new D7 installed someplace - right?  Go ahead and try the migration module.

Rob

update: not sure what is going to happen with those profiles you are defining.  Install the major modules - including of course the migration module, and then import your site from there.

Ok now, I am trying to do this thing with a foggy brain (that on top of being blonde) - I'm after a surgery and HAD to take pain killers.

the "install" text file only gives instructions for a brand new website. I have over 900 users already.

I don't know exactly what I am supposed to do - I did save the MySQL database. Am I supposed to transfer the 7 files on top of the 6.1.6 ones? Then run the data migration module? That I find... where?

Start by installing a fresh D7.  Is your current site in a subdirectory?   If so then just install D7 in a different subdirectory.  Do NOT install these files over your current directory.  Then you should install all the major modules.  The "migration" module is the one you want.  The documentation is not great, but it can be used to migrate your D6 site to your new D7 site.

As Caltrade said (though in more detail, unneeded):

1) Create a new sub-directory for Dolphin 7.0.

2) Create a new database for Dolphin 7.0.

3) Install Dolphin 7.0, using the new database information, ensuring cron jobs are also set-up correctly.

4) Navigate to your Dolphin 7.0 administration panel, either via the new member menu, or http://www.yoursite.com/dolphin7/administration.

5) In the administration panel, navigate to Tools > Modules and install all modules you would like to have installed on your site. Also install the Dolphin 6.1.6 migration module.

6) Run the migration module, and migrate all sections of your older site that you wish to transfer to your new site. This is handled via a cron job, so it may take time, or may not work at all, depending on your set-up being configured properly.

7) Once the migration process has been completed, look-over your new site to ensure all content has been successfully migrated.

7.1) If migration was unsuccessful, stop here and report it back to us.

8) If migration was successful, either move your Dolphin 6.1.6 to a new directory (archive), or delete it from the server.

9) Move your Dolphin 7.0 installation to the directory where Dolphin 6.1.6 was located and edit your /inc/header.inc.php to update the address changes for your site.

10) No profit, as you most likely do not run advertisements.

Ok... Data migration doesn't work. Says "sorry, directory or header.inc.php was not found". They're both where they are supposed to be. would a database dump in phpmyadmin work?

Question - if I just rename the subdirectories so that the old one (installed on the add-on domain directory) becomes "archivexxx" and the one I used to install the 7 on and migrate becomes the add-on domain directory?Would that work?

No, you have to also change that information in inc/header.inc.php - I think that is all.  Anyone else?

Caltrade, yes, I mean, besides that. Would it work? Because it would save a whole load of time.

Anyone knows why I might be getting that error in the migration and if the other solution might be good?

What is the error you are getting?

Sorry, didn't read the message before the last one.   Do the sites both work?   I thought the inc/header.inc.php was all you had to change.  Maybe there is something in .htaccess - anyone?

.htaccess isn't very directory-specific (for Dolphin, anyways), and I've never encountered such a situation in Dolphin.

Well I guess I'll just try the renaming and changing of the inc.header.php

If it won't work I'll just revert to the normal way of transferring-retransferring (sigh)

By the way, how long does it take for the migration module to migrate around 1k profiles? It says profiles (queued) in like forever.

1K Profiles? I'd imagine it'd take forever.

It really depends on the cron job/server.

Ok, now I have this problem:

<font color="red">allow_url_include is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font> <br />
Please go to the <br />
<a href="http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolTShooter">Dolphin Troubleshooter</a> <br />
and solve the problem.

Edit your php.ini file and add the following: allow_url_include=Off

Also, try adding the following to your .htaccess file: php_value allow_url_include off

Ok, I removed the "cd" from the cron command line, now it looks like:

/home/mainxxx/public_html/DOLPHIN_DIRECTORY/periodic; /usr/local/bin/php -q cron.php

Now I get:

/bin/sh: /home1/sagegrov/public_html/test/periodic: is a directory
Could not open input file: cron.php

Try any of the following:

/path/to/php -q /path/to/dolphin/periodic/cron.php

/path/to/php5 -q /path/to/dolphin/periodic/cron.php

php -q /path/to/dolphin/periodic/cron.php

php5 -q /path/to/dolphin/periodic/cron.php

My htaccess has

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_flag register_globals Off
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag allow_url_include Off
php_flag register_globals Off
</IfModule>

I dont' have a php.ini in the dolphin directory.

Going to try the suggestions right now - but what do you mean by /path/to/php?

If you can, try making a new php.ini with the needed contents and placing it in the root of your Dolphin directory.

I did. Same message

<font color="red">allow_url_include is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font> <br />
Please go to the <br />
<a href="http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolTShooter">Dolphin Troubleshooter</a> <br />
and solve the problem.

I tried your 3rd and 4th line of commands, same result.

what is /path/to/php? the path to the cron.php? like same as the regular one but with /cron.php in the end?

It was meant that you edit these lines for your information. For example, /path/to/php is the path to your php on your server. /path/to/dolphin/periodic/cron.php  is the path to your Dolphin's cron.php file.

Sorry, another blonde question. I have like 14 different websites on different platforms on the same server, one main domain, the others add-ons. The website that is in dolphin is an add-on. So the path to my php what on the server?

Day,

The path to your php is to the server that the site is hosted on. So according to the cron info you posted:

/home/mainxxx/public_html/DOLPHIN_DIRECTORY/periodic; /usr/local/bin/php -q cron.php

/usr/local/bin/php is the path to your php. So if what you pasted is correct information, you should try changing your cron command to this:

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/mainxxx/public_html/DOLPHIN_DIRECTORY/periodic/cron.php

Chris

Chris,

Just did that. Same email

<font color="red">allow_url_include is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font> <br />
Please go to the <br />
<a href="http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolTShooter">Dolphin Troubleshooter</a> <br />
and solve the problem.

trying with php5 I get

/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/php5: No such file or directory

Do you have a php.ini file in the /home/mainxxx/public_html/DOLPHIN_DIRECTORY/ directory?

Chris

As I said before, I did not have one. I made one an hour or so ago, with the allow_url = off and it didnt' help any.

It's like the cron job can't read (r doesn't understand) that the allow_url is turned off both in the htaccess and in this new php.ini.

I hope you made a typo cause it should be:

allow_url_include= Off

Just checking.

Chris

Yep.

allow_url_include = Off
register_globals = Off

I tried all the strings you've suggested in your post Troubleshooting - Crons, Videos, Migrations, RMS

I either got the same message about allow_url or (for the last one you suggested) "No input file specified."

Guess I'll have to stay with 6.1.6?

Anyone? any solution?

Is your php run through cgi?  - if so, you will have to put a php.ini file with the contents below in almost every directory:

register_globals=Off
magic_quotes_gpc=On
allow_url_include=Off
upload_max_filesize=300M
post_max_size=300M
max_input_time=3000
max_execution_time=3000
memory_limit=128M
short_open_tag=On

Caltrade, you are an angel. It works now!

Ok, now I get on the front page

Pagan DatingWarning! PageView cache cannot be evaluated. Please recompile.

Why thank you Day - I am a sucker for blonds.  No clue on your most recent issue though, but since it is saying it is a cache problem, the first thing I would do is turn off the cache entirely in advanced settings.  Then I would clear the cache - both on the admin panel and by deleting everything except .htaccess in the cache folders.  Let us know if you still have the issue.

Rob

And to fix the final issue, just go into your page builders, move a block and then put it back where it was.  The pages will recompile.  (Make sure you clear out the cache after you do this)

I am ready to totally give up on boonex. After over a year of working on this, a website that got over 1k members, and all the work in promoting it and making it successful, now everything is crumbling.

I did everything you guys said. After adding the php.ini it worked. I was working on a test going to upload it when ready. By the time I made everything work, there were over 50 more members in the main site. So, I got everything re-started from the beginning. re-install 7 and everything. Now when I am trying to add the flash apps, it just sits there and does nothing.

And in the meantime, the working 6.1.6 is getting a "database error" that makes it unfunctional.

I'm ready to give up on everything.

Nah, you are not going to give up - I saw your site and it looks quite successful.   What happens on the flash errors - does it just "spin"?   Does your new D7 site work at all?  If so, it might be time to dump your D6 site and move forward, even though your D7 site isn't working perfectly yet.  Hang in there?

Well, no, I think i will. It is the second time my website is down for over a day - how many users do you think I will still have?

The same thing happened. I started migrating data - 0 profiles were migrated. And the 6.1.6 isn't working anymore! the same darn thing, when I started copying it to my PC, it suddenly started giving mysql errors - same as last time, and I can't fix it.