Upgrading to 141

[Jagang]

Ok I will start off by saying that I have been running an integramod forum now for about a year and a half and have done pretty much nothing to the site, in other words I'm a total beginner. When I switched from phpbb lets just say things didn't go so smoothly LOL. Anyway since then I was of the opinion if its not broken don't mess with it. Well now I'm ready to get out of that and start fooling with things a bit and see what I can do. I thought I would start by upgrading from 140 to 141...I mean I am really out of date. So I'm wondering if I could get some direction as to what steps to take in upgrading my forum so I don't lose all the posts that are currently up.

Things I can tell you:
1. I don't own the server that my forums are on...I'm pretty sure the guy who owns the server runs MySQL 5.
2. I ftp in to the server whenever I use it but I can't get in and mess with the server from a remote location just upload files and do anything ftp related (chmod...that kinda stuff, unless someone knows a program that will allow me to do more I currently use cuteftp because it was free, if someone else wants to suggest something that is free and better I'm open to suggestions.)

Anyway I will answer questions as I can but I want to learn as much as I can so maybe we can start here by helping me learn how to upgrade to new versions without crashing my boards...again LOL.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

[Imajica]

do you have access to phpmyadmin?
that way you can do a DB backup

I would make full backups of my files and DB, then follow the instructions in the upgrade package
http://www.integramod.com/forum/dload.p ... ile_id=109

it's really not that bad of an upgrade as long as you follow the instructions

good luck