Answered Manager Mess after Upgrade

The install.php script simplifies upgrading as well as installing. It downloads the selected version directly from the MODX repository to your server, and unzips it in place. Then it forwards you to the Setup.

Of course, you need to backup your site before doing anything to it.

Can you post the link to this script, please ?

This is my Revo-only fork of the original, which original also has options for various Evo and Clipper versions. I've also added a cURL fallback for sites that don't have allow_url_fopen enabled. And I am careful to make sure that I keep it updated.

https://github.com/sottwell/installer [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 12 years, 1 month ago.]

thank Sottwell, will try it !
do you have a dedicated topic about it on the forum ?

Cool boomerang ! i learned something today

I do now
https://forums.modx.com/thread/92581/quick-installer-script-for-revo

The original version's thread is here, but I certainly don't expect them to support my fork.
https://forums.modx.com/thread/89455/modx-installer---to-install-any-version-of-modx-quickly

Quote from: boomerang at Aug 08, 2014, 02:24 AM

Finally - went through all system settings one by one, comparing with site that was upgraded without problem and finally discovered the problem (do vaguely recall seeing this somewhere - but clearly very important) - remember to set your manager_theme to default

Bob you can add that to your list of things to check

Good tip. I never change the Manager Theme, which may explain why I see a lot of problems reported that never happen to me.

Good tip. I never change the Manager Theme, which may explain why I see a lot of problems reported that never happen to me. smiley

As it happens that was probably the one and only time I had ever looked at doing so and then decided it wasn't really worth the effort!! Hence the reason I'd forgotten about that setting. Also it hasn't arisen as a problem whilst doing upgrades through version 2.2, it only became an issue when going from 2.2 to 2.3 because of course, the manager changed so much.

All part of the never end learning curve!