{typography icon type="alert" boxstyle="float: none; margin: 5px;"}It is absolutely necessary to make a backup of your whole site before you upgrade your shop! An upgrade failure can always happen! So please: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!{/typography}
Upgrade from VirtueMart 1.1.x
Place holder for VirtueMart 1.1.x update instructions..
Upgrade from VirtueMart 1.0.x
If you're a user of VirtueMart 1.0.x (or mambo-phpShop >= 1.2 stable) you can easily update your existing shop.
- Download the file
VirtueMart_1.1.0-Manual_Installation_Package.tar.gz(or the .zip file if you have difficulties unpacking a .tar.gz file). - Unpack that archive using WinRAR or a similar Archive Software (7-zip).
- You should now see some directories:
- /administrator
- /components
- /modules
- /mambots (/plugins for the Joomla! 1.5 version)
The directory structure in those directories is the same as in your Joomla!/Mambo site.
- Open up an FTP Connection to your site, change to the root directory of your Joomla!/Mambo site and upload the directories.
{typography icon type="info" boxstyle="float: none; margin: 5px;"}The FileZilla FTP Client is a fabulous FTP client (Open Source!) and reports transfer errors, so you know if everything has been successfully uploaded or not.{/typography}
You will probably have to confirm overwriting some existing files in these directories. An existing configuration file will not be overwritten.
- Login in to the Joomla! / Mambo Administration (the so-called Backend). http://www.xxxxxx.com/administrator/
- When having logged in, navigate to your VirtueMart. You should now see the "Installation was successful....[UPDATE MODE]..." Screen. There you can click on "UPDATE NOW" - do that now. Your database structure will be automatically updated.
- Go to the Store Configuration Form (Admin => Configuration) and make all necessary adjustments. Make sure you Save the Configuration Form once you're done.
That's it.
{typography icon type="alert" boxstyle="float: none; margin: 5px;"}This has been said often enough before, but now once again: before you attempt to upgrade your existing Store to VirtueMart 1.1 create a BACKUP first and test the upgrade on a local copy of your store!{/typography}
{typography icon type="alert" boxstyle="float: none; margin: 5px;"}Themes are a new feature introduced with VirtueMart 1.1. So the complete templating system has been changed. If you have modified the shop templates (product_details, browse, order_email) that shipped with VirtueMart 1.0.x, you will have to manually convert your existing templates to the new theme structure!{/typography}
Upgrade from mambo-phpShop
You want to upgrade to VirtueMart from mambo-phpShop? That is possible.
All you need to do is install VirtueMart! It will automatically convert your installation of mambo-phpShop.
So just follow the instructions for the automatic installation (or if you have difficulties with it: the manual installation).
{typography icon type="alert" boxstyle="float: none; margin: 5px;"}It is recommended to uninstall the old mambo-phpShop modules after you have installed the VirtueMart component and then install the new VirtueMart modules.{/typography}