Upgrading
Upgrading ResourceSpace requires Subversion (SVN) to be installed on your server. Before upgrading you should ensure that your system meets the General installation requirements.
Navigate to the web root
Open a Terminal/Command Prompt and change to the web root where ResourceSpace is installed (i.e. the location of 'login.php').
On Linux machines this may be:
/var/www/html/resourcespace
On Windows machines this may be:
C:/inetpub/wwwroot/resourcespace
Check for modified files:
Run the following command to find any files that have been changed locally.
svn diff
If there are modified files it may be useful to save these to a text file in case of conflicts:
svn diff > before_upgrade.diff
Upgrade the code
Perform the upgrade by switching the code to the latest version in the releases branch:
svn switch https://svn.resourcespace.com/svn/rs/releases/10.5
or simply:
svn switch ^/releases/10.5
NOTE: For larger systems, the upgrade to 10.0 and above can take a long time (several hours) due to one of the automatic migration scripts changing how metadata is stored in the database. This can be mitigated by following these steps:
Upgrade to version 9.8 first:
svn switch ^/releases/9.8
If you are already using version 9.8, update to the latest revision:
svn update
Manually run the following script:
php pages/tools/populate_nodes_pre_v10.php
Once that script is complete you can perform the upgrade to version 10.0 and above with less downtime incurred as the longer upgrade script has already been executed.
Converting a downloaded installation to a Subversion working copy
Using Subversion means upgrading is easier, particularly if you plan to make local changes that must be carefully merged. To convert your installation to a Subversion working copy, use:
svn co --force https://svn.resourcespace.com/svn/rs/releases/10.5 .
You can then update to the latest version of the checked out release simply by typing
svn update
Troubleshooting
- If you get an error similar to the following: "sqlite[S8]: attempt to write a readonly database" you need elevated permissions to run the SVN command. On Linux put "sudo" before the command and on Windows open the Command Prompt/Powershell as Administrator.
- When using Command Prompt on Windows you will need to escape the ^ character. So the upgrade command would instead be "svn switch ^^/releases/10.5".
- File and folder permissions of the code may be changed when upgrading. On Linux setting the ownership of the files to the user group www-data may resolve any permission issues.
- If any issues occur during the upgrade that leave your checkout in a broken state, use the 'svn cleanup' command to fix this.