Hi,

This is a request for someone experienced who might be interested in performing an upgrade from 2.03 to 2.06 for my site. It is a site for kids and parents, http://preemie.info. I am paranoid about screwing it as there is so much stuff in it that people need. I am ok with most things but just a bit tentative. I would prefer a volunteer for the job at no monetary cost but otherwise mail me a quote for the work.

it *should* just be a matter of uploading the new files, but of course, sh*t happens.

Take a backup of the site and the database and try it out.

If you are very uncomfortable, you should of course get a more experienced person to help you. I'd love to help, but simply cannot take the responsibility and time to do so without monetary compensation (a man's gotta live ) and even so, it would depend on your geographic location as e.g. I'd be wary about taking on jobs outside of the EU.

For such a "simple" thing, it should be possible to find someone on this site, who will help you, though.

I understand you are careful and don't want to mess up.

But it is possible to make a complete back-up of
- the site (html and php-files)
- the database

and it is fairly simple. That way you can always revert to the old 2.0.3 site of yours if the upgrade somehow messes up.

The site can simply be back-upped by copying everything on your site to a dir on your harddisk.

The database can be back-upped by going into the MySQL administration provided by your host. But I admit, that can be a pretty scary experience. There is a module (simply called "Backup"), which places a button on your homepage. When you press it, it makes a backup of your database and sends you an email telling you were to download the backup, complete with a link. Very easy to use.

You should consider to make backups of your site at regular intervals as your host provider is bound to screw up sooner or later.

We are now in the process of updating two sites from 2.0.3 to 2.0.6 which is somewhat complicated, as there a multitude of hacks which we have to move along. Until we have finished that successfully, I can't say I am experienced at updating XOOPS