I know that I cannot upgrade my V7.7.7 to the latest version, so I am trying to upgrade it to the latest v7 - v7.15.7. I do not have a VS solution for the instance. I am wondering if anyone could point me to a source with instructions that are still applicable to V7.7.7.
the good news is that most of the really tricky upgrade hurdles for V7 are resolved once you get to V7.7...
I guess main choice for you is whether you want to introduce a visual studio solution at this stage (eg create a brand new 7.15.7 solution in Visual Studio - and point it at a copy of your existing database to upgrade the database), and then copy across into the solution your Views / App_Code, Css/ JS/ Img / Media folder etc etc
or just copy in the Umbraco, Umbraco_Client folders and bin directory from a download Zip of V7.15.7 and copy that over your existing implementation (taking backups first of course! - testing locally etc)
Thank you very much for the detailed tips. I will use V7.15.7 for a while. If I do not see any problem, I will upgrade it to V8. I assume that at that point I will have to create a brand new Umbraco web project, migrate the database, then point the new Umbraco instance to the new database. That is my understanding of my today's reading.
Upgrade version 7.7.7 to the latest v7 - v7.15.7
I know that I cannot upgrade my V7.7.7 to the latest version, so I am trying to upgrade it to the latest v7 - v7.15.7. I do not have a VS solution for the instance. I am wondering if anyone could point me to a source with instructions that are still applicable to V7.7.7.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Hong
There is the general upgrade guide for V7 here:
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Fundamentals/Setup/Upgrading/general-v7
and the version-specific upgrade guide that gives you the lowdown of the breaking changes between versions inc v7 is here:
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Fundamentals/Setup/Upgrading/version-specific
the good news is that most of the really tricky upgrade hurdles for V7 are resolved once you get to V7.7...
I guess main choice for you is whether you want to introduce a visual studio solution at this stage (eg create a brand new 7.15.7 solution in Visual Studio - and point it at a copy of your existing database to upgrade the database), and then copy across into the solution your Views / App_Code, Css/ JS/ Img / Media folder etc etc
or just copy in the Umbraco, Umbraco_Client folders and bin directory from a download Zip of V7.15.7 and copy that over your existing implementation (taking backups first of course! - testing locally etc)
regards
marc
Hello Marc,
Thank you very much for the detailed tips. I will use V7.15.7 for a while. If I do not see any problem, I will upgrade it to V8. I assume that at that point I will have to create a brand new Umbraco web project, migrate the database, then point the new Umbraco instance to the new database. That is my understanding of my today's reading.
I was able to follow these instructions to use a downloaded zip file to upgrade 7.7.7 to 7.15.7.
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