Posted 16 years ago #
I need to upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.2.3
I found one reference to closing prior to an upgrade, but it suggested shutting down mysql. I can't do that due to other sites/programs requiring mysql.
What would be the best option? Is closing them required? We have under 1000 blogs in our mu installation to upgrade, and this is our first experience upgrading mu.
Thanks :)
do a search here for the shutdown plugin. (locked down terminal so i can't dig for a link)
You can't upgrade with the site shutdown in place, it blocks out requests.
I've run a couple of 4 figure sites upgrades along those lines recently (and a 27,000 site too!) and it worked just fine without shutting down mysql... there's an initial massive load and huge slowness, but that fixes itself up after 30 mins or so (as long as you're on a decent dedicated server).
Backup and give it a crack.
at the thop of .htaccess :
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*)domain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain.com/statichtmlpage.html [L]
Farms, thanks for the response.
