CMS Made Simple Forums

Hello!

I've got lots of problems after upgrading from 0.13 to 1.1.4.1. I ran the install/upgrade.php and first of all i couldn't log in anymore because it always said "wrong user name or password". I solved that by overwriting the pw in the database.

Now i can login again but the admin screen looks like this: http://iaeste-karlsruhe.de/screenshot.jpg
The panel works so far but some functions are not accessible anymore (for example editing content).

The front-end site itself looks fine.

I tried already:
debug mode: no errors
uploading all files again: complete and checked
running upgrade.php again: reports that cmsms is up-to-date
running install/index.php with unticked "create tables" at step 3 (so the data won't be deleted): successful but no changes.
properties: i played a bit with the settings on different folders. maybe someone has more hints on this.


Hope somebody can help me with my issue!

Dominik

Hello Dominik,

upgrading from pre-1.0 is an adventure in nowadays (1.2). It may have been easier to upgrade first to 1.0 then to 1.1 then to latest stable.
Do you use the "Questions" module ? It may have a problem with recent CMSms versions.

Pierre M.

no, i'm not using that module and also i renamed all folders of modules that could cause the problem - without success. as it seems i will have to upload the backup and try again as described...

The module technical interface (API) has changed over time since 0.13. Not all modules are still compatible with latest stable release. Hence upgrade step by step with caution.

Pierre M.

Its quite some time that i posted my upgrade problems but still i wasn't able to solve them. First I rolled back to 0.13 to get the page running again cause i really need it working.
Now I tried to upgrade from 0.13 to 1.0 which is the next release and I am still having trouble.

The problem is that i can't even log in to the admin panel anymore while the frontend is still ok. Last time it helped to replace the password via phpmyadmin with a new one. Don't know why but it helped but this time it doesn't.

I'm a bit puzzled now since i'm not really able to debug the code somehow. I always left the cms system in its original state (no new modules, addons etc.) to keep it updateable. Maybe the reason could be that I updated already quite often from earlier versions? Maybe it would help to make complete new install and migrate the content data from the old db to the new one. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,
Dominik

After I noticed that another user could login to the backend without problems i checked again for possible solutions and replaced also my username via the phpmyadmin sql database manager. I have a "-" in my user name.
After deleting it, it works, even if i put the minus-sign back in via admin panel user preferences. Must have been a problem with character encoding...
great that it works now! really like cmsms even after facing some problems with it which i didn't the last almost 3 years before.

Dominik