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Upgrading between the different eZ versions way troublesome

Friday 09 January 2004 6:19:43 am - 6 replies

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Tore Skobba

Friday 09 January 2004 6:38:27 am

Hi

I agree with you. However, upgrading from Ez 3.2.X series was quite easy I think. But upgrading to EZ 3.3 is very diffcult. Particularly due to lack of documentation on how to update your image.ini settings I belive. Another contribution to the difficult updating I belive, is the lack of a clear and consistent set of functions, whereever this lack is due to poor docs or lacking funtions I do not know (it might of course also be due to that I am not experinced enough in EZ). And as such I belive that most people have various ad hoc variable checks in their template in order to implemented wanted functionality. And this makes the possible amount of errors at upgrading almost unlimited.

My tip would be to get good and consistent API docs. Like Java Docs for instance.

Just my thought about the matters after struggling with updating to Ez 3.3. Which by the way has some really nice functionality, I love the demosites, and if I manage to use all the new functionality my employe is going to be very happy with me I think:). So thanks EZ for nice release.

Cheers
Tore

Bård Farstad

Friday 09 January 2004 7:02:55 am

Tore,

you will find information about what's changed with the new image system. This should help you when upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3.
http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/releases/ez_publish_3_3/new_image_system

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Balazs Halasy

Friday 09 January 2004 7:03:30 am

Upgrades will probably be easier in the future. We're sorry about problems that might occur at this point. Regarding the new image system and upgrades, please read this page:

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/releases/ez_publish_3_3/new_image_system

Might be worth to take a look here also:

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/installation/upgrading/upgrading_ez_publish_from_3_a_b_to_3_x_y

Balazs

Tore Skobba

Friday 09 January 2004 8:49:01 am

Hi

Thanks for tips. I think I understand it better now. My problem was bascially that I was developing in WinXP. Apache, MySql etc. had all been installed as an EZ installer with EZ 3.2.0. This worked fine when upgrading with only the distribution files for Ez 3.2.XX. However, once upgrading to 3.3 it really went bad. I think that was due to that my old image settings where wrong, the convert path etc.. However, finding how to set them correctly was a bit difficult. As such I downloaded a complete Ez 3.3.1 installer, installed it and then modifed the conf files, and THEN migrated my Ez 3.2.2 site to the EZ 3.3 distrubtion (as such the site was running of the new installer version of Apache, php etc.)! This worked much better, now I am really making an progress toward getting it up an running again. Now I can take the weekend, looking forward to be working with the new functionality in Ez 3.3.

For production I am gonna go Linux so I do not really care about the eventual poor security in the installers.

Well in case anyone needs it here are my new settings/override/image.ini.append.php file which works for me in Win XP now:). Note that
"[ShellSettings]
ConvertPath=C:\WINDOWS\system32
ConvertExecutable=convertim.exe"

has to changed to:

"[ImageMagick]
IsEnabled=true
ExecutablePath=C:\WINDOWS\system32
Executable=convertim.exe"

Should this have been documented EZ? Or is it and have I overlooked it?

<?php /* #?ini charset="iso-8859-1"?

# Linux image settings. NOTE THESE ARE THE OLD SETTINGS AND PROPBABLY MUST BE CHANGED FOR
# RELEASE IN A LINUX ENVIROMENT!!!
#[ConverterSettings]
#UseConvert=true
#UseGD=true

#[ShellSettings]
#ConvertPath=/usr/bin
#ConvertExecutable=convert

# Windows XP settings

[ImageMagick]
IsEnabled=true
ExecutablePath=C:\WINDOWS\system32
Executable=convertim.exe

*/ ?>

Marco Zinn

Friday 09 January 2004 12:32:36 pm

Tore, thanks for posting the .ini part, cause a lot of user will need this.
ez, I'd sugguest, that you post something like this in the upgrade section AND make a link from the release page ("new image system") to the upgrade page.
The new image system is cool :), give the admins some help for the upgrade to 3.3

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Asbjørn Prøis

Monday 12 January 2004 7:52:13 am

This might be a silly question, but i cant find a .diff file for upgrading from 3.2-4 to 3.3-1 (only the 3.3-1 complete source).
Can someone give me a hint?
(there's nothing at http://www.ez.no/layout/set/print/developer/download/ez_publish_3/stable/3_3)

-aZZy-

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