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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => Installation, Migration & Upgrade => Topic started by: kristinabrull on May 19, 2016, 22:52:05 PM

Title: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: kristinabrull on May 19, 2016, 22:52:05 PM
My parents website has the VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable version and I'd like to upgrade it to the newest version for them.  Am I able to do that with such a outdated version? And how?
Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: GJC Web Design on May 19, 2016, 22:57:33 PM
you should get it to vm1.1.9 I would think first.. (last vm1.1)

then there is a migration (it is no way an upgrade!) to J3/VM3 ... but effectively you are only migrating the data into a brand new J3/VM3 site/template/extensions
so u have to get that up and running first

first get the J1.5 data into J3 .. then the vm1.1 into VM3..

there is plenty of posts on here.. but I use the inbuilt VM migrator which works well unless you have complex product attributes
Title: Re: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: kristinabrull on May 19, 2016, 23:00:51 PM
Yeah I've never done this kind of stuff before so.. I'm doomed haha.  But I'll look into it tomorrow at work.
Title: Re: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: jenkinhill on May 19, 2016, 23:12:12 PM
IF all this is new then maybe you should use a migrator extension which talks you through the process.  http://extensions.virtuemart.net/import-export/virtuemart-migrator-detail
Title: Re: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: PRO on May 20, 2016, 17:15:06 PM
DEFINITELY TRY IT ON A TEST DOMAIN

Title: Re: VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version
Post by: jenkinhill on May 20, 2016, 17:57:12 PM
The advantage of the Daycounts Migrator is that it does not change the old site at all, just copies over what it needs onto a new installation.