Tired...

Hi.

I saw the security alert and upgraded to Rev 2.3. It took all night to upload the files, and then when I got home from work the next day I could finally go to the setup dir and make the upgrade, which went off without a hitch. But I am welcomed with the MODx 2.3.1 bug fix upgrade. So now I have to do it all again.

What complicates that issue is that I have so many sites to upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I like having the upgrades. But, could we please not rush a distribution to market if I have to upgrade it all over again the very next day? All that work I did yesterday is now pointless because there is no difference archive between 2.3 and 2.3.1 and I have to upload the whole thing all over again, which will take all night and prevent me from doing anything online. I have lots of work to do, and almost all of it requires me to use online resources or at least be online.

Please consider a difference archive of the changed files from the very last version. That's all I request.

Normally, I think you'd see at least a description of the patch and a link to the commit at GitHub, but in this case so many files had to be changed that it will be much faster to do an upgrade install than to modify them all.

You can see the changes here if you want to wade through them: https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/commits/develop

After many years of using MODX, I can tell you that this is a very rare event.

All that said, I definitely feel your pain.

There is a easier way to upgrade without uploading all files.
There is 1 .php file you need to upload and you can upgrade with 1 click.
(I haven't used it yet thow.)

Can't find the link, maybe someone can post it?

https://github.com/evolution-cms/installer

Needs to be updated to fetch the latest versions.

The URL for the latest is http://modx.com/download/direct/modx-2.3.1-pl.zip, so you'd need to edit lines 40 and 41 to reflect that.

You can also modify to add links to the advance and SDK versions and for 2.2.15 as well.

when I change it and run the installer for 2.3.1-pl I get:

503 Error
Page not found
The page you requested was not found.

running in a subdomain

You have to put the install.php file in the directory where you want MODX to be installed. When it's run, it romoves itself, so you have to upload it again if you want to run it again. If it can't find the setup file, more than likely there was a problem downloading the MODX .zip file.

I've modified the original to address Revolution installation only, and updated it to install the three versions of the latest Revo - as of this post, 2.2.15 and 2.3.1.

https://github.com/sottwell/installer [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 12 years, 2 months ago.]

There's a diffview here, perhaps with some git-fu that can be made into an archive of just changes https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/compare/v2.3.0-pl...v2.3.1-pl

The problem is that the site to be updated would have to be under Git to use the difference and have a proper .gitignore to keep the local files from being deleted.

Given those conditions, I think this might do it:



Then, after getting the git.diff file on the site, and assuming that 'git status' shows it up to date:



Assuming that check shows no problems:



Does the version at GitHub still require a 'build" step before setup? That might keep this process from working.