Updating a LIVE Magento Store
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- iswy
- Rocketeer
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HI
Firstly apologies for this not being in Magento forum. My subs for magento has run out...i mainly use joomla so only open that subs when working on magento project.
I would like to reopen my magento subs and get the latest version of a template ive used when my subs was still active. I'm still a RT member though for Joomla.
Now question is before i do this....
What is the best way to update a [ LIVE ] magento site?
I've tweaked and customised loads, got loads of other extensions etc (which ill check which support latest magento version)
It's currently a 1.5.1.0 magento version install and id like to update to latest version as easy as poss
Ideally i'd like to copy it somewhere (either online somewhere else... or locally into a mamp/wamp setup).
Id then like to update.
Question part a -
What's the best way to do this? To work on some clone somehow?
Question part b -
What's the Best way to make the update? Do i download just the template, and then the latest update from magento.com ? Or can i use the rocketlauncher type template+magento in one file from RT and overwrite?
Much appreciate any help mods or members can give me
Thanks
Olly
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- Ben Lee
- Elite Rocketeer
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I have a couple posts that have a list of tips on upgrading and how to go about it, but it's not necessarily a short list, or even just one post to check.
I will say that Magento is not the easiest of upgrades and several times has required incremental upgrades to be done instead of just jumping to the latest version.
Carrying over any code changes and styling that you've customized is something that can be done on a development set up, but running two sites in tandem as you upgrade is pretty tough. The catch with a live store is that just one customer adding something to a wishlist or purchasing a product means that your database has changed, so you can't just carry it over from the development set up.
I highly recommend running some downtime to make the upgrade happen because even someone visiting the site can cause an issue with a page load trigger while the database update operations are being carried out.
Pull a late night and have a back up ready, just in case it doesn't go well. Trying to force it without downtime just isn't worth the effort...it doesn't matter how big or busy your store is, it's just not worth trying to force it while live.
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