Joomla Upgrade?

[darbyshire]

The previous network manager has left and i have been given the task of taken over the Joomla Website.

Currently we are on 1.0.15 Stable. Should i upgrade to the new one?

Would it casue any problems?

How to do it?

Rose Bridge High School - Home

Sorry for the list of questions

Thanks
Peter

[SimpleSi]

Your site is what I'd call a "quiet" one.

If its going to stay that way, then just leave well alone.

If there are plans to make it buisier then create a new 1.5 site and just copy and paste the existing info (as there's not much there) and re-do the template.

regards

Simon

[darbyshire]

how would i go about making a new 1.5 website?
Thanks
Peter

[SimpleSi]

Well, if your web knowledge is a bit low, I'd suggest trying to create a site on a local webserver first and once you've got it working locally it is relatively easy to upload it to your real website using an extension called Joomlapack.

I use something called Uniform Server to host my test websites on my local machine but there are many others.

So basically, install a local webserver, download the latest Edugeek Joomla Package and start playing

Come back if you need help doing the install or check out the other threads/wiki

regards
Simon

[mossj]

I think that template was even part of an older J1.5 edugeek package (back when I first started posting)

IT might still be hanging around if you ask one of the admins...

Then its just a case of copy/pasting the info into the edugeek package, and placing your logo files into the relevent place...

P.S use WAMP to create your local test server...

also a link to the wiki on this subject http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.ph...mla_1.X_to_1.5

[darbyshire]

well at the moment what i gather. Is that the website is currently hosted on a local machine and the rosebridge url (which i think is from our council) is just being redirected to our web server. So will i just need a normal work station to give it a go?

Thanks
Peter

[rush_tech]

well at the moment what i gather. Is that the website is currently hosted on a local machine and the rosebridge url (which i think is from our council) is just being redirected to our web server. So will i just need a normal work station to give it a go?

Thanks
Peter

Yes a XP machine will do, install WAMP, download which ever Joomla package you want EduJoomla is good follow this guide and you should be up and running in 10 minutes

[darbyshire]

Thanks all. i have a go tomorrow when i get to work.

When i get a local site running how i want. How easy is it to copy the website over to our current joomla website?

Thanks again
Peter

[SYSMAN_MK]

Have to agree with comments above. Create a brand new J1.5 based site using a WAMP package such as XAMPP and the current Edugeek Joomla Package from here and get your site running on your local machine.

Copying the site to a live server is a matter of copying the site files, exporting the local DB and importing to your live servers DB and then changing a few values in the configuration.php file.

[SimpleSi]

When i get a local site running how i want. How easy is it to copy the website over to our current joomla website?

Its basically copying the new website across using FTP and then running a configuration routine that takes 2 mins.

But just before you do that, I'd recommend taking a backup of the old site first

regards

Simon

[mossj]

another useful page for you - Migrating from 1.0.x to 1.5 Stable - Joomla! Documentation