Upgrade Procedure / Tutorial

Searched this entire forum and the wiki and google but cannot find a detailed instruction tutorial for upgrading Kuneri Mobile. The only reference I found is one very old Blog post was to "uninstall before installing" but no explanation of what to unintsall. There is not only a component, there is modules and plugins combined with Kuneri. Must the component and each plugin and module be uninstalled manually before upgrading?

I think a tut on this in the Wiki would be most helpful to users.

Duh .... actually very easy. I've been accustomed to many joomla extensions NOT cleanly uninstalling but Kuneri have mastered this with a spiffy clean uninstall. If you've made any customisations to your templates then back them up first or re-make those changes afterwards.

Simply go to administrator > extensions > install/uninstall > components > click on Mobile Joomla and click Uninstall (voila ... easy as pie). Reinstall the new one, putting any settings back should take you about 5 seconds. I use FTP layer so there is no permissions problems with the uninstall but if you do run into problems you're going to have to delete the templates and component folders manually before reinstalling.

It might be worth backing up your administrator/components/com_mobilejoomla/config.php file as all the settings will be lost on upgrade.
I did notice extra fields can appear in the config.php file in newer versions so you can't simply copy it back after upgrade - best to compare the differences in the old and new file.

The settings in the modules appear to be preserved. I think the difference is where the module settings are stored in the database and are not removed on uninstall.

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2020media wrote:


The settings will be lost if you uninstall MJ, and then install it again. In the case of installing new version over existing MJ keeps all the settings.

Hi

Ok, so the instructions from 'RavingMad' wouldn't be the preferred method then?

Don't uninstall first, just install over the top?

Rex
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