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| ====== Vanilla ====== | ====== Vanilla ====== |
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| | ===== Big Upgrade ===== |
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| I'm in the process of upgrading an old installation of the Vanilla forum software, from version 3.3, to 2021.009. | I'm in the process of upgrading an old installation of the Vanilla forum software, from version 3.3, to 2021.009. |
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| * I had to clear the ''cache'' directory. | * I had to clear the ''cache'' directory. |
| * I had trouble with the 'pretty urls', as they've since become the default. My ''.htaccess'' file was also empty, so I copied the one from [[github>vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/.htaccess.dist]], and added ''$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = true;'' to ''conf/config.php'' (You might not need to add this?). | * I had trouble with the 'pretty urls', as they've since become the default. My ''.htaccess'' file was also empty, so I copied the one from [[github>vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/.htaccess.dist]]. If you have a ''$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls']'' line in ''conf/config.php'' just delete it. |
| * If you can't enable mod-rewrite then add ''$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = false;'' to ''conf/config.php''. The links in the header will have to be fixed manually somehow, but I think the rest will work. | * If you //can't// enable mod-rewrite then add ''$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = false;'' to ''conf/config.php''. The links in the header will have to be fixed manually somehow, but I think the rest will work. |
| * To finish the upgrade it will try to send you to ''[url]/utility/update'', instead go to ''[url]index.php?p=/utility/update'' | * To finish the upgrade it will try to send you to ''[forum url]/utility/update'', instead go to ''[forum url]index.php?p=/utility/update'' |
| * Apart from the cache, there's some other stuff that can be deleted: | * Apart from the cache, there's some other stuff that can be deleted: |
| * ''container.html'' | * ''container.html'' |
| * ''plugins/EmojiExtender'' (there should be a new dir call ''plugins/emojiextender'') | * ''plugins/EmojiExtender'' (there should be a new dir call ''plugins/emojiextender'') |
| * ''themes'' directory has moved to ''addon/themes'', and my old themes don't work. | * ''themes'' directory has moved to ''addon/themes''. |
| | * You can enable debug mode with ''$Configuration['Debug'] = true;'' in your config |
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| | But I ended up starting the forum over because the database was a big mess, and would take too much manual intervention to get working right. |
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| | Other notes |
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| | * There's a 'rich editor' plugin that succeeded the 'advanced editor', but the advanced editor still seems better? |
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| | ==== Theming ==== |
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| | o-> If you want to add or remove themes, or generally mess with the ''plugins/themes'' directory, you might have to delete the related stuff from the cache. Maybe there's an easier way, but I've been SSHing into my cache directory and removing (''rm -r theme/ theme-index.php'') ''theme-index.php'' and ''theme/''. //Some//times it'll prompt you to do a refresh in the UI, but often I'll just get an obnoxious error page and won't be able to get into the theme settings. |
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| | <del>My [[tildegit>rjt/vanilla-theme-fancy-gms|old theme]] doesn't work. It seems they've got much more complicated, so I'm currently experimenting to see how uncomplicated I can make one. I have no desire to fuck with //building// something as simple as a theme. Kinda wishing I'd given up on the old forum and switch to [[PHPBB]].</del>\\ Oh fuck, my old theme does work! It just need some fixing-up. I guess I didn't clear the cache properly before. |
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| {{tag>forum self-host software}} | {{tag>fixes forum guide self-host software theming}} |
