fool Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Okay. Based on your e-mail from today, I tried to update MT from v. 2.65 to 3.15. However, it's now not working. Before I am told that TCH doesn't "support" 3rd party software or scripts, I want to emphasize that the primary reason I switched to TCH was because you offered to migrate my site - including MT. I have followed sixapart's instructions. I have uploaded all of the new files except one (see below). When I try to run the upgrade scripts (mt-upgrade30.cgi & mt-upgrade31.cgi), I get the following message: "You have not yet upgraded to the 3.0 version of MT. Please do that before you run this script. Exiting..." Back to uploading files. I am unable to upload a new version of mt-tb.cgi. I get messages (both in the ftp and the cpanel) that it cannot read mt-tb.cgi. I cannot move it. I cannot delete it. I cannot rename it. Moreover, I cannot change its permission to 755. It is currently set at 0 (zero). Could this be causing the problem? If so, how can I replace this file with the new one? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkalicious Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I have found, from personal experience (and I have installed MT many times) that it's usually less of a headache (especially with big version changes) to do a fresh install of the new version and then import your entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Hello, fool. And welcome to the family! As for the MT upgrade, I don't use MT so I can't be much of a help but I was also going to suggest that you try to do a clean install and import your old entries then. As Funkalicious said, many times this is much less of a headache than to upgrade your current version - not only with MT but with many other software packages. I'm also moving this into a more appropriate forum, for better exposure and organization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Welcome to the Family fool! Sorry, I don't have anything more to offer since I switched from MT to Wordpress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fool Posted February 6, 2005 Author Share Posted February 6, 2005 Thanks for the input; however, doing a freh install sounds daunting...to me at least. Is there an uber-person who can perhaps delete the mt-tb.cgi for me so I can upload the "newer" version on the server? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 You can submit a help-desk ticket asking that the techs delete the file for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fool Posted February 6, 2005 Author Share Posted February 6, 2005 You can submit a help-desk ticket asking that the techs delete the file for you <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks, Raul. Do you think that would help resolve the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJill Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Just remember that if you do a fresh install you willl lose - not only your entries, but your templates as well. Those do NOT get exported. I would suggest that you post in the MT forums if nooone here has a suggestion. Reinstalling for an ugprade should never be necessary withi any script. I'm sure that they've seen this problem many times over there. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm2 Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Before doing a fresh installation (which seems a bit drastic), have you tried fresh download and unzipping of the MT 3.15 upgrade package? Sometimes files can get garbled in unzipping (at least with winzip). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Fool, follow Lisa and mcm2's suggestions. I'm not the best person to give advice on how to upgrade MT, since I don't use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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