Answered All my modx sites has been hacked. Update question.

Hi there.
Almost all the Modx website i work has been hacked this last 3 days.
I´m have some websites that still don´t has been hacked, i have the core folder one level up off the root, and i have change connections folder name. I give up using modx some time ago for one reason: it´s a complete pain to update, i have to backup everyting, upload the new version, uncompress, merge, etc etc.

Now i have this emergecy and i can´t update to lastest version, because i upload the last version, uncompress, merge, and when i go to setup it doesn´t recognize my installation, and will probaby create a new empty database and so on.

So, my question is: what are the steps to update to latest version in this case? ( core one level up, changed connections and manager folder names).

PS: i have another website without this changes and modx doesn´t recognize ( and don´t give me the option to UPDATE on the setup ).

Thank you!

Thanks for your reply Andy,I really appreciate it.

I installed UpgradeModx and updated locally a modx install. great! i didn´t know about this tool, very useful.

Modx always had an awesome community.

Thanks again, i will tell you how it works with the site i mention.

Good luck.

Seba.


Quote from: andytough at Jul 23, 2018, 09:28 PM

If you are able to restore backups from before the hack you can use this extra to handle the upgrade process for you. https://modx.com/extras/package/upgrademodx
It can cope with moved/renamed core folders. You will need to enter the path to the core folder during the upgrade process.