upgrading 6 to 7 without installing in new folder?

any one have idea how to do that? i installed 7 to new folder as suggested and migrated everything from older version, but i dont want to keep my website in same location and not in new folder, i assigned domain to that folder but then website stop working properly. please give me any suggestion how to solve this problem. thank you.

not real clear what you are saying here but i will shoot at it.

what is your control panel?

for all intents and purposes we will suppose you dont have one and are running ragshod, nothing but the black window CLI ssh.

zip filename.zip directory1_to_add directory2_to_add

directory2_to_add is optional

/site1 /site2
site1 needs to be zipped site2 needs to move to /site1 dir

or

tar -czf filename.tar.gz directory1_to_add directory2_to_add

mv /site1 /old_site_1

mv /site2 /site1

and if everything checks out, u can nuke /old_site_1 later

use zip or tar, not all machines have zip on them, but the larger % have the ability to tar if they are *nix machine

That is a brute force technique, but some of the posts I referenced in this thread have other methods:

im on godaddy linux server, i have a control panel there but cant find solution for that, i do everything with ftp client

Using your file manager in your cpanel, move all the older directories and files to another directory then move all your D7 directories and files back where the D6 was.

You will then need to change the path in the inc/header.inc.php file to the new location. Remember to change your cron job too.

will it work if i move my website to another folder, install dolphin 7 in root and do migration from that folder?

or you could try folder masking:

http://www.boonexnerd.net/dolphin/blogs/posts/kosmic

if you try this  method, please ensure that all of your files are moved. there has been instances where the server build would set files to owner 99, specifically with orca, where you can neither move nor delete those files, so if you delete and dont refresh to ensure that your directory structure is empty, or you will be fighting a ghost on that one.

Regards,

DosDawg

This is interesting because whenever a new version (or major upgrade) to dolphin comes out which requires a migration, you will always need to create a new directory for the new dolphin. What is the best way/method to keep your current directory setup when moving to a new version? I can understand the need to install dolphin in a new directory and then migrate over but what is the recommended way to move the new dolphin back to the previous dolphin's directory and retain that structure?

To DosDawg: When  you create the tar archive, would it be wise to keep permissions for files and folders with the "p" switch aswell?

Thanks!