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diff --git a/docs/html/geninstall.html b/docs/html/geninstall.html index 8a760b410..b5cecc5fc 100644 --- a/docs/html/geninstall.html +++ b/docs/html/geninstall.html @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A -NAME="AEN942">3.5.1. Modifying Your Running System</H2 +NAME="AEN874">3.5.1. Modifying Your Running System</H2 ><P > Bugzilla optimizes database lookups by storing all relatively static information in the versioncache file, located in the data/ subdirectory @@ -110,13 +110,26 @@ CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A -NAME="AEN949">3.5.2. Upgrading From Previous Versions</H2 +NAME="AEN881">3.5.2. Upgrading From Previous Versions</H2 ><P -> The developers of Bugzilla are constantly adding new tables, columns and - fields. You'll get SQL errors if you just update the code. The strategy - to update is to simply always run the checksetup.pl script whenever - you upgrade your installation of Bugzilla. If you want to see what has - changed, you can read the comments in that file, starting from the end. +> A plain Bugzilla is fairly easy to upgrade from one version to a newer one. + However, things get a bit more complicated if you've made changes to + Bugzilla's code. In this case, you may have to re-make or reapply those + changes. + It is recommended that you take a backup of your database and your entire + Bugzilla installation before attempting an upgrade. You can upgrade a 'clean' + installation by untarring a new tarball over the old installation. If you + are upgrading from 2.12 or later, you can type <TT +CLASS="filename" +>cvs -z3 + update</TT +>, and resolve conflicts if there are any. + </P +><P +> Because the developers of Bugzilla are constantly adding new tables, columns + and fields, you'll probably get SQL errors if you just update the code and + attempt to use Bugzilla. Always run the checksetup.pl script whenever + you upgrade your installation. </P ><P > If you are running Bugzilla version 2.8 or lower, and wish to upgrade to @@ -148,7 +161,9 @@ CLASS="filename" generate the <TT CLASS="filename" >.htaccess</TT -> files. +> files. These .htaccess files + will not work with Apache 1.2.x - but this has security holes, so you + shouldn't be using it anyway. <DIV CLASS="note" |