Hi,

I am running XOOPS 2.0.5.1 (very old, I know!) and I'm going to upgrade to the latest version. I've installed the newest version on my test box and it seems to be running fine, now I'd like to copy it to a subfolder of my existing XOOPS installation for testing purposes. I'd like the new installation to use the existing database, but I don't want it to try and erase them or anything. Is this safe? And when I eventually replace the old version with the new, which files do I have to be careful about? eg. mainfile.php?

Please take a look for the patches to upgrade one by one.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41586

This is the best you can do ensure you are not running into any problem.

I would, but my old version of XOOPS is highly customized, so the updates may not work correctly. I intended to install fresh and then reapply the customizations.

Also I don't really want to install 20 patches to get from 2.0.5 to 2.0.9.2 :P