Downgrade from phpnuke v7.8 to RavenNuke76(tm)

New Member Joined: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 24

Hi I run phpnuke 7.8 at [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I like the look of the raven nuke as it is more updated than the old nuke is it possilble to change to the raven nuke and used my old sql table so i do not loose the member logins or any of the posts or info on the website.

Thanks in advance sorry if on wrong forum.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

1 - Get the PHP-Nuke Downgrader [7.8/7.7 to 7.6] and downgrade your database to 7.6

2 - Run the RN76 installSQL.php and only run the NSN Groups option

3 - If you need NukeSentinel installed then run the NS table installer

4 - Do NOT run setup.php! You will need to manually configure NukeSentinel(tm)

You will then need to replace your 7.8 files with those from RN76.

That should do it.

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:20 am

Thanks for the info I will test it out tonight. if i get stuck i wil post in the instal site.

P.S i have downloaded this version of Raven nuke from the main page is this the correct verson i will be changing to ?

rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.00_FULL

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:49 am

Yes.

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:39 pm

worked thanks for the info took about 4 hours. to back up the main site upload the new stuff.

Now i just got to reinstall some blocks etc but none of my right hand blocks work at the moment time to search on here for answer

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:16 am

Answered in the FAQ Wink

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:48 pm

I downgraded from 7.8 to 7.6 and installed RavenNuke76. Unfortunately I had to manually upload my MySQL data. I just have to figure out all the banner stuff for 3 positions. Also my banner clients don't show up in the admin sectionm even tough that they are in the database. One more thing...the active authors show just 1, in my case it should show 3. In the MS Analysis the Nuke Version shows up as 0, shouldn't it be 7.6?
But also good news...my KISGB works again!

So far, I'm happy with the new version!

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:20 pm

If you did not use the Install scripts, at all, then your version will be wrong.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:35 am

Raven,

I did use the install scripts, but I guess that I somehow overwrote something in the database.
I also have a problem posting new stories. Preview is ok, then if I post it, it does not show up on the site, nor in the database. Rolling Eyes

I bet it is my fault, but I don't know where I screwed up Sad

To back up...I've used my backup data from MySQL (that time 7.8 )

Downgraded to 7.6.

Uploaded Raven Nuke 7.6

Used the install script - site is up! Now I wanted my members data, news, etc. back. So I went to phpMyAdmin and uploaded my backup from 7.8.
Obviously I ran in millions of problems, so I uploaded (dumped) every entry manually via import.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:30 am

When you say So I went to phpMyAdmin and uploaded my backup from 7.8 do you mean the 7.8 or the downgraded 7.8 to 7.6? If it was really 7.8, then there's your problem.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:04 am

Yep, there is my problem! So I should have used the 7.8 to 7.6 downgraded backup to make it work - darn!
So, how can I get out of this mess? Run the downgrader program again?

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:11 am

Raven wrote:

1 - Get the PHP-Nuke Downgrader [7.8/7.7 to 7.6] and downgrade your database to 7.6

2 - Run the RN76 installSQL.php and only run the NSN Groups option

3 - If you need NukeSentinel installed then run the NS table installer

4 - Do NOT run setup.php! You will need to manually configure NukeSentinel(tm)

You will then need to replace your 7.8 files with those from RN76.

That should do it.

That should do it.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:40 pm

Everything seems to be up and running...I'm still testing my page [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] I'll keep you posted.
Thank you for now Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:44 pm

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:28 pm

I am running 7.9 with the 3.2 patches. Will the downgrader script work for me?

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:48 pm

No.

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:59 pm

Well if anyone knows what database changes occurred between 7.8 and 7.9 I could help write such a script.

Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:25 am

Sorry, I dont' know the changes, 7.7 was way to screwy for me. I had hopes for 7.8 but that turned up hopeless too.

One thing I've done in the past you might try it. If you still have the db data from the two installs and you're good with phpmyadmin and have a file compare utility: export the table structure from phpmyadmin to two different files and compare them with the utility. Differences in table structure will pop out and give you a clue to the data that needs tweeking.

Hangin' Around Joined: Apr 02, 2006 Posts: 38

Raven wrote:

2 - Run the RN76 installSQL.php and only run the NSN Groups option

3 - If you need NukeSentinel installed then run the NS table installer
.

I have already have nsn groups installed on 7.8 do i need to rerun NSN groups option when installing RN7.6?

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:08 pm

No you shouldn't but I would strongly recommend you compare the table structures for the 3 affected tables to ensure the actual data will transfer without any problems.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:57 pm

Thanks for the response. one more question.

I run CNB YA, The reason is that my server send e-mail but alot of useser dont get their e-mail (ISP-blocked) because the e-mail reads from (root@localhost) I have talked to my host a few times. he says he has edited the the php.ini but forsomereason it is still doing it. So I installed cnbya so i could just manually activate useers.

So I guess my question is will CNBYA work with raven nuke? Or is there this type of option in RN?

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:49 am

AwwYouDead, RavenNuke76 is still pretty much plain old Nuke 76 with NSN Groups added, patched to 3.1, NukeSentinel and a really easy installation toolset. The only thing in that list that might cause issues is NSN Groups, but I believe others here have installed CNBYA successfully on RN76.

New Member Joined: Apr 15, 2006 Posts: 3

Though I perfer to do this and I have 7.6 on most of my sites... for 1 I have 7.8 but I have way to many mods like the Arcade mod that well destroy and restart everything if I do the downgrade... right?

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:10 pm

grimpuppy - I am not sure what you mean by

Quote:

Arcade mod that well destroy and restart everything

.
In what way do you think that modules wil damage your site?

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:03 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

grimpuppy - I am not sure what you mean by

Quote:

Arcade mod that well destroy and restart everything

.
In what way do you think that modules wil damage your site?

Not damage but destroy the mods and hacks I have added. I have alot of mods, modules and hacks... If I replace the files won't it destroy all those? Like the Arcade Mod won't it take away all the scripts I had to write for it?