Upgrade from 5.1.6 to 9

[David Carter-Tod]

At 12:43 PM 10/16/2002 +0200, nate at int-res.com wrote:
>Has any body ever upgraded from 5.x to 9? I think it will probably be a 
>colossal amount of work, but I have no idea where to start. Can someone 
>please give me a clue as to where to begin? What sort of inner workings of 
>my database need to be changed in order to be supported by 9?

Actually, I'd think that the differences wouldn't be that great.  I'd just 
export your various bits and pieces, back everything up and start up 
F9.  Then import the old pieces, probably into a guest database (it makes 
future upgrades much easier).

The web site framework hasn't really changed that much since 5.x that I 
recall and the internal formats haven't changed either.

>This question will come later of course:
>How do I make an old site created in pre-Manila 5.1.6 accessable by Manila 
>once I pull a copy of my present database into my new Frontier and get it 
>working?
>I've tried searching the archives here but I don't know if any of what I 
>found pertains to my problem.

Are you talking about a traditional static built site?  If so, I think 
Bayly.root has some scripts for that kind of conversion.

http://www.baylys.com:8080/

David
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