XF 1.5 Upgrading forum, admin appears for all users during installation

[brunoa]

Hi, I'm updating my forum installation and something weird happened. I turned the forum off while uploading the update files to the FTP so the forum was down for a while, but after uploading some files, the main URL redirected to the installation screen for every user.

Why did this happen? Is there a way to make sure the forum will be offline for normal users while updating?

 

[Ozzy47]

Did you happen to get this sorted?

 

[brunoa]

I had to start it over and restrict access to my IP only during the update. Couldn't risk trying again.

 

[Ozzy47]

That is strange, once the files were loaded it should have shut the board off till the upgrade had completed.

What version were you going from - to?

 

[S Thomas]

Nope, if files are heavily missing or corrupted, XF automatically switches to "please install me" mode.

 

[Ozzy47]

Nope, if files are heavily missing or corrupted, XF automatically switches to "please install me" mode.

Sure, that would happen, but he was able to start over and it was successful, so I would have to assume the files were all there and not corrupt.

 

[S Thomas]

If you override your files and you're still on a lower version, this can be interpreted the same as "missing or corrupted", because, well, the expected content is missing. At least this is my experience with XF upgrades.

 

[brunoa]

Was upgrading to 1.5.18 from 1.4.something. What @yoloswaggerino mentioned makes sense since I was overwriting files and not merging them. I had to restore a backup and start again, restricting access to the server to make sure it didn't happen again. Thanks for the comments!