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hi

I understand that you only support the current version and the previous version, I was working on this project a few years ago, and it never really needed anything, so we let it lie for a while, but now they are asking for a forum plugin.
We managed to get one version of the site (on our test server) updated to 1.6.1, and so I was able to install the forum there.
We have the project in CVS, the version that is in CVS is 1.0.2, and so I've been trying to upgrade the project incrementally on my local machine before committing back. But I can only get to version 1.4.1 before weird things happen.
When I try to upgrade to 1.5 (or higher), one of two things happen, I get to step 6 of the upgrade, and it just says "Add Item Add Item Add Item" at the bottom of the page, and I can't continue, and either that is all that ("Add Item Add Item Add Item") is displayed on the web site, or it gets into a redirect loop and then collapses.
I'm not expecting the answer to this issue because it is such an old version, but if anyone can give me some clues as to where to look, that'd be great.

I have a feeling it has something to do with Schema 32, as when doing upgrades everything still seems to work more or less until Schema 31, but once it goes to 32, that issue with the "Add Item" thing comes up.

David

(rubbing my hands) What a fun project!

My recommendation is to install another CMSMS of the same version in a subfolder on your server. Point it to a copy of your database. Upgrade it. Change DNS to point to that install. NOT TOUCH the old (but working!) installation AT ALL.

The proper way to do any upgrade has been documented by me too many times before (SEARCH). I will add that you need to read ALL release notes for every incremental upgrade.

If you wouldn't mind, I have upgraded from 1.2.5 to 1.7, but nothing this old. If you send me hosting, ftp, and admin info I can try what I listed above just for fun.

this is a work project, so i certainly can't give you any login details
I'm pretty sure I followed the upgrade procedure correctly several times, I've been through the incremental versions, and obviously with the big version upgrades in between
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.0.2-1.0.4.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.0.4-1.0.5.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.0.5-1.0.6.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.0.6-1.0.7.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.0.7-1.0.8.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.1-1.1.2.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.1.2-1.1.3.1.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.1.3.1-1.1.4.1.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.2-1.2.1.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.2.1-1.2.2.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.2.2-1.2.3.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.2.3-1.2.4.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.2.4-1.2.5.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-diff-1.3-1.3.1.tar.gz
cmsmadesimple-full-diff-1.4-1.4.1.tar.gz

I thought it might be the modules that I have installed, but I removed the ones that weren't on the working Test server, and I still have this issue of not being able to get past Step 6 of version 1.5 (which I noticed is actually still schema 31 so maybe that's not it).

looks like I worked it out
similar to your suggestion, I just copied a new version of 1.6 to my local server
and made a copy of the database and ran upgrade on the 1.6 version, so it looks like it is going now
thanks for the tips