VirtueMart 1.1.5 stable to the New Version

[kristinabrull]

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  Am I able to do that with such a outdated version?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.

[GJC Web Design]

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

[kristinabrull]

Yeah I've never done this kind of stuff before so.. I'm doomed haha.  But I'll look into it tomorrow at work.

[jenkinhill]

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

[PRO]

DEFINITELY TRY IT ON A TEST DOMAIN

[jenkinhill]

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.