How safe is stable?
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- damo
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I'm in the zone tonight and I've not even had a glass of wine yet which leads me to this question.
I wrote the above about 5 minutes ago as I've just opened a cheeky little Italian red I'd saved for a night much like tonight.
Here it is; I've just spent an entire two days upgrading a site from a previous 'stable' release of Joomla to the latest 'stable' release and it's driving me mad. It's not just Joomla but this particular site had a lot of extra's and some commercial scripts that when I did the upgrade things went a little wrong; actually things didn't go right for anything apart from Joomla.
The thing is I hadn't factored this into my costs for this client so I've learnt something, but I have a few client sites that if I had to do this with every time I'd be doing nothing else but upgrading.
The reason I had to do this was because the site homepage got hijacked. Luckily I caught it before the client called in and they understand that sometimes urgent upgrades are needed so no face lost, but what does everyone else do about security and stability?
Does anyone have any advice they can part with? - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- SureLurksalot
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Advice? Yes Three Things:
Backup, Backup, Backup
It will save your bacon! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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- Dan L
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- Offer to charge a monthly fee for regular 'off-site' backups. Make a bit of extra cash, and restore a website very quickly if things go wrong.
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- damo
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i do the backups and charge for them
the frustration stems from components and stability
all of us here like joomla otherwsie we wouldn't be here but sometimes it gets very frustrating - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Mack
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Before doing any more upgrades, i would suggest reading this thread:
forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,125365.0.html
This last patch wasn't a minor release, although it was passed off as one. It made changes to the Joomla core and changed functionality so much that it should have been considered a major release.
They claimed it was discussed. Yea, in thread # 6,635,685 reply # 452,.... blah blah, they act as if everyone should be reading every thread every day. I trust release notes and this wasn't mentioned until AFTER it blew up.
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- damo
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- i noticed that as soon as the upgrade was done and pre-release; it meant a lot of work on this particular site as it changed around how joomla worked for me; it was an issue but one i lived with after i read about it ...
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