issues and solutions for magento upgrade(1.8.0.1)

Upgrading MAGENTO Through Magento

Connect

Presenter: Sammanita Pattnayak,Mindfire SolutionsDate: 31/03/2014

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Presenter: Sammanita Pattnayak,Mindfire SolutionsDate: 31/03/2014

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Agenda Introduction Why to upgrade magento. Care should be taken before upgradation Common Issues faced during upgradation Different methods for upgradation Testing the Magento Upgrade Demo using magento connect Pros Cons Presenter: Sammanita Pattnayak,

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Introduction

Magento is a vast e-commerce platform. Magento developers keep upgrading with new

versions of magento. Everybody wants that they should be upgraded

with the latest version of Magento.

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Why to UPGRADE MAGENTO

Significant TAX calculation updates VAT,FPT.

Functional Improvements Shipping,Checkout.

Admin area changes Order Cancellation

Bug Fixes

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Care should be taken Before Upgradation

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Back up of root directory. Back up of complete database. File comparison. If any modification found in core file then

overwrite the file in locale code pool and replace the file with core file.

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Current stable version does not show up on magento connect.

File permission. Add the following snippet of code in

downloader/lib/Mage/Connect/Validator.phpto fix magento connect issue.

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Common Issues faced During Upgradation

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public function compareStabilities($s1, $s2) {

$list = $this->getStabilities(); $tmp = array_combine(array_values($list),array_keys($list)); // Code snippet to be inserted starts here //==================== if ($s1 == "dev") { $s11="dev"; $s1="devel"; } if ($s2 == "dev") { $s22="dev"; $s2="devel"; } // Code snippet to be inserted ends here //==================== if (!isset($tmp[$s1], $tmp[$s2])) { throw new Exception("Invalid stability in compareStabilities argument"); }

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Different methods for Upgradation

Using Command Prompt:

STEP 1: Enable maintenance modecd /magento_folder

#for example: cd /var/www/magento

touch maintenance.flag

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STEP 2: Backup your database and foldersmysqldump [magento_database_name] –u [magento_user] –p[magento_database_password] > \

> magento_database_name_backup_date.sql

# for example: mysqldump magento_db –u dbuser –pdbpassword > magento_db_ backup_01012013.sql

tar –cvf magento_backup_date.tar /magento_folder

# for example: tar –cvf /var/www/magento_backup.tar /var/www/magento

cp -R /your_magento_folder /your_magento_backup_folder

# for example: cp /your_magento_folder/ magento_backup.tar /your_magento_backup_folder

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STEP 3: Start the upgrade

cd /magento_folder

rm -rf var/cache/* var/session/*

chmod -R 777 /magento_folder

chmod 550 ./mage

./mage mage-setup .

./mage config-set preferred_state stable

./mage list-installed

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The last command should list the expectedMagento modules as follows:

Installed package for channel 'community' :

Lib_Js_Ext 1.7.0.0 stableLib_LinLibertineFont 2.8.14.1 stableLib_Js_TinyMCE 3.4.7.0 stableLib_Js_Calendar 1.51.1.1 stableLib_Phpseclib 1.5.0.0 stable

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I f modules were not l isted, you’l l need to upgrade using:

./mage install http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community Mage_All_Latest –force

I f your Magento modules were l isted - use the following commands:

./mage list-upgrades

./mage upgrade-all

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When the process is complete you’l l see a l ist of modules saying ‘already installed’, ’package upgraded’ etc...), make sure your permissions are set back to normal:

php shell/indexer.php reindexallchmod -R 644 ./*find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;chmod 550 ./mage

STEP 4: Go l ive

cd /magento_folderrm -f maintenance.flag

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Testing the Magento Upgrade

Browse through the complete site.

Check each and every functionality.

Do a complete QA after upgrade.

Revert back the file permission

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Pros Avail bug fixes.

Avail new added functionality.

Performance increase.

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Cons If the upgrade is not done with caution then the

site may break.

If the core files are tempered and you don't have your back up or overwritten in local, then your data will be lost.

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Questions&

Answers

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ThankYou

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