Upgrade TNG Genealogy Software

Claire Furney

• 1 min read

I use TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) to run www.furney.org. The next version (v11) is out.

  1. Back up existing files
  • cd /var/www/furney.org/backups
  • mkdir 20160320 && cd 20160320
  • cp ../../*.config . (config.php, importconfig.php, logconfig.php, mapconfig.php)
  • cp ../../footer.php
  • cp ../../index.* (index.html, index.php)
  • cp ../../meta.php
  1. Back up database tables
  • Go to Admin > Utilities > Select all > Back up
  • mv ../*.bak .
  1. Download new files
  • cd /var/www
  • curl http://tng.lythgoes.net/downloads11/tngupgrade1013-1100.zip -o tngupgrade1013-1100.zip -u username
  • unzip tngupgrade1013-1100.zip -d tngupgrade1013-1100
  1. Check any differences for curiosity and to see which files would be missing if you just deleted all existing files and copied the new files in fresh
  • diff -rq furney.org/ tngupgrade1013-1100 | grep "Only in furney.org"
  1. Copy new files over existing files (subsequent step does the template directory too, so do that now anyway)
  • cp -r tngupgrade1013-1100/* furney.org/
  1. Open the upgrade readme file (readme1013-1100.html) in a web browser
  2. Run the upgrade fileops script
  3. Go to Config > General Settings > Table Names and add in the names for the 2 new tables as per suggestion
  4. Run the database upgrade script
  5. Delete all the upgrade files from the site