Hey everyone.
I have to tried to upgrade my gallery from 1.4.27 to the latest version 1.5.12, and kept running into fatal error problems (the first being the acces_levels one)
I followed most of this thread here:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,65521.0.html because it seems mosted similar to my problems)
what I did after I first tried to install it and it didn't work, is I reuploaded the 1.4.27 files, t hen the gallery seemed to work again
I started over:
- made a backup of the database, and had the config file point to that one (so now, i still have my 1.4.27 database online should things go wrong again)
- disabled all the plugins
- removed every file with ftp (Filezilla), uploaded all the new files from 1.5.12
- ran the update again
but again, I kept bumping into the same problems (it seemed like my database wasn't taking any of the updates?)
What I did was, I followed the steps in the thread I posted above (
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,65521.0.html) and updated the database manually
After some work, I got the site working again, I can upload and batch add fine, etc.
However, there are still some problems. I enabled the debug mode, and you can see there are a LOT of things still missing. Also, for instance, I can't create a new user (so I can't create a new test account), which has me thinking that there is some sort of hickup in the database still, that most things have not been converted to the 1.5.12 version.
I'm at my wits end honestly, I would have no idea where to start now to fix all the remaining errors, like the users etc.
I am providing you with a link to the gallery:
http://mary-kateandashleyimages.com/photos/index.php(but no test account, since that doesn't seem to work to create one or log in with an old one, I apologize)
Which would be your advice? Should I downgrade again to 1.4.27? I have done that before, and performed the upgrade again, but I still got the same problems. Should I downgrade again and not perform the upgrade all together (is is possible there is some kind of fault with my host, that the database does not change with the updates?)
Or is this fixable? Because if I keep on with the 1.5.12 ofcourse I'll want to upgrade further with new releases, but if this is already a not correct database then I think all my next upgrades will fail.
If anyone can have a look into this or share some advice, I'd appreaciate it. For now, I have left the debug enabled so you can see what's going on (because I can't seem to create a test account)