XF 2.2 Upgrade to 2.2 question

[tommydamic68]

Hello,
I was upgrading to 2.2 from 2.1 and I received this message. Question is, I am gonig to upgrade via CLI. Do I just leave this upgrade window open do the upgrade via CLI and then close the window? Don't want to screw anything up.

TIA

 

[SyTry]

Hello, yes it's recommended to do the upgrade via CLI for large forum, like the above message said. For the window, do what you want I don't think this has an impact on the upgrade. That's my opinion

Regards, SyTry

 

[tommydamic68]

All good - thanks

 

[Old Nick]

Hello, what is the CLI et where it is ?

 

[RobinHood]

It means Command Line Interface, ie. run the command from the XF directory in the terminal for your server.

 

[Paul B]

You need SSH access to upgrade via CLI.

It's really only required if there are at least 500k posts or 50k members.

 

[Old Nick]

It's really only required if there are at least 500k posts or 50k members.

ok, so rendez-vous in 2025 !

 

[DigNap15]

I've got 400,000 posts but only 1,200 members
I am planning to do my upgrade very soon, here's hoping

 

[Rhody]

It worked fine for me with just over 1.1 million posts and 8500 users, with the regular/ADCP upgrade tool, shared hosting. I think it probably depends how beefy the internet provider is, too. I tried it on test system for laughs, and it didn't time out, so we did it for the real conversion.

 

[Paul B]

It is possible to upgrade a large site via the browser (I did a 1+ million one yesterday) but there may be issues with timeouts, etc. on table alters on some of the larger ones such as posts.

Not all versions require alters though so each upgrade is different.

I definitely wouldn't want to do a 1.x to 2.x upgrade for a site with 5 million posts and 500 thousand members via the web browser though.

 

[tommydamic68]

I did try it once via the browser with the last big upgrade and it times out and became a horror, I was able to get it going eventually, I wouldn’t risk it again.