Clear upgrade process for 1.9.8 RC2M to 2.0.0 Stable

[Clocked0ne]

Hi All,

I've made a few sites using Joomla/Virtumart and it has always been a winning combination. The latest site I decided to configure using the new VM and have been using 1.9.8 RC2 M.

After attempting the auto-upgrade to aoi and VM from the backend striaght to 2.0.0, I had the issue of products vanishing and have had to do a restore.

Can someone please help to confirm the below or provide a clear set of steps to take to upgrade from 1.9.8 RC2 M to 2.0.0, I'm sure this would help a lot of people with the same problems?

First important step, create an Akeeba backup

Second step it seems is to update to the intermediate release N/RC3 following this: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=94183.0
- very important before you update to check that your default joomla frontend language is the same as you use in the description of your products - if using one language/English I do not need to set a language in VM, only Joomla?
- disable the joomla debug, the akeeba enhanced installer and maybe even the vm debugger
- rise the max_execution time and the memory_limit to prevent that the script stops - (may not be possible for me)
- REMEMBER to install both, CORE and AIO!

Then, run the update to 2.0.0?

Have I missed any other important steps or steps that were not in the original update instructions?

[JJBW]

Hi all

Same here.  I've tried various ways to upgrade from 1.9.8m to 2.0.0 but no luck.  The last time I tried it I got somwhere near but the shipping and payment options in the cart wouldn't work.

A step by step guide to upgrade from 1.9.8m to 2.0.0 would help a huge amount.  Can someone help please?

The backend AIO component suggests that there is an upgrade from 1.9.8m to 2.0.0 is this option working?  Or should it work?

Many thanks.

[JJBW]

Hi all.

No worries got this sorted now.  I uninstalled old (everything) and installed new through Joomla them altered template overrides.  Ding dong!!

What a brilliant cart!!

Thanks to everyone involved.

[Clocked0ne]

Right, it seems these instructions as I wrote do work - the problem was the script was not finishing executing on my server, I tried a copy made on a different server and it ran through fine.

The only issue I found is that on the front end of the site my categories/products come up as 404 not found - this was down to my custom VM template modifications in /templates/templatename/html/

I hope this is useful to someone experiencing the same difficulties.

[Clocked0ne]

One final issue (I'm hoping someone might finally reply )...

I have upgraded the All-in-one to 2.0 final twice now, first time without deleting old plugins, just de-installing, second time I deleted all the plugins, but still after both times all the plugins show version 2.0RC3?

[Clocked0ne]

Come on guys, this must be a 2 second job for someone in the know to answer, I've tried searching and it's been asked a few times before with no response, someone must know?

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=95450.msg313330#msg313330

[Milbo]

One final issue (I'm hoping someone might finally reply )...

I have upgraded the All-in-one to 2.0 final twice now, first time without deleting old plugins, just de-installing, second time I deleted all the plugins, but still after both times all the plugins show version 2.0RC3?

This is maybe just a small "bug" in the xml of the plugins. or in the sql we use to install them, because it is not a joomla native way. I am quite sure you have the new files.

[Clocked0ne]

Thank you for taking the time to respond, much appreciated