I upgraded with these instructions:
(quoted from readme_upgrade.txt file within pixelpost software)
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4- UPGRADE from Version 1.4.1 to PixelPost 1.4.2
This is the same Routine if you want to upgrade to PixelPost 1.4.3
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No install-script and no database-backup are necessary for this Upgrade.
But for sure we recommend to make a backup of all your files and the database
as well!
1) If you modified something in the scripts please make a backup of your modifications.
(including modified language files or templates)
2) save your /includes/pixelpost.php
3) Open the file /includes/pixelpost.php from the UPGRADE-files and edit it:
enter your database-data into the following lines:
$pixelpost_db_host = "localhost"; // database host, often "localhost"
$pixelpost_db_user = "replace_me"; // database user
$pixelpost_db_pass = "replace_me"; // database user password
$pixelpost_db_pixelpost = "replace_me"; // database
take care that the tablename-prefix is correct, if your tablename-prefix differs
from "pixelpost_", you must enter your prefix here:
$pixelpost_db_prefix = "pixelpost_"; // table prefix, leave as is unless you want to
install multiple blogs on the same database
3) PixelPost 1.4.3 comes as a complete install-package.
If Pixelpost 1.4.1 is installed already at your website,
!! update at least the following files:
to the "root.directory" of PixelPost: index.php
to the addon-folder: /addons/anti_spam.php
/addons/advanced_stat.php
to the admin-folder: /admin/index.php
to the includes-folder: /includes/pixelpost.php
/includes/no-refer-spam.php
/includes/phpinfo.php
no need to run any install-script, everything should work fine after that.
the new table {$pixelpost_db_prefix}stats will be created automatically when
you first log into ADMIN-section by "/addons/advanced_stat.php"
4) edit your templates in /templates:
open your image_template.html and take off the tag:
!! <SITE_REFLINK> !!
as this link will not work anymore to stop referer-robots
as the link to the referer-page will not work anymore, take off your
referer_template.html from your template-directory
replace the tag <SITE_VISITORNUMBER> in your image_template.html by this new tag:
<ADVNCD_SITE_VISITORNUMBER>
to show the number of all visitors from the new table "stats"
This package comes with the PixelPost-'standard'-templates (pixelpost-light
and pixelpost-dark), which are updated already
4) Additional goodies of PixelPost 1.4.3:
you will find one new template-folder: simple
use it if you whish!
some small bugs or corrections or additions are part of this package as well,
this are documented in the changelog.txt in the doc-folder as well.
5) We strongly recommend to run the Referer-Clean-Job and the Comment-Clean-Job
from your Admin/AddOn-Page after updating to clean your Pixelpost-tables.
6) That's it! Your PixelPost Version is upgraded to version 1.4.3
now your PixelPost-Installation is armed against referer-spam
in the admin panel
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Basically, I followed these instructoins... I backed up my includes folder, replaced all the files it said to replace in the "replace at least these files section" and updated the mySQL data in the proper file within the includes folder. Things seemed to run just fine, but Eleven2 didn't like the server load, hah tho I don't blame them...
This, again, was 1.4.1 to 1.4.3, skipping 1.4.2. I thought that the instructions said (in the header) that it would be fine to skip 1.4.2, so I did. Hopefully the problem isn't as small a detail as this.
When I did the upgrade, I didn't loose anything, the blog seemed to work exactly as it had. I'd be fine doing a total clean reinstall, but I'd really like to be able to keep the pictures in the order they had been posted, etc. I've got copies of all of the data saved locally, so deleting anything from the domain is NO problem at all. I'd really like to just put everything back the way it was, but if that's not a possibility then I'd at least like to get things running again. I thought it was time to redesign the site and weed out some of the lesser photos, anyways... At least I don't have to rescan anything.
Sorry for the insane long post, those instructions really took up a chunk of room... hope this info helps, and thanks for the help I've gotten so far!
Oh, and if any of you have AIM, hit me up, my screenname is
ana10g
and I think it'd be nicer to talk with immediate feedback.