01 September 2010, 22:12

Hi Richard

I installed Mahara myself onto my hosted website.  Is it hard to do an upgrade?  How do I go about it?  Sorry for being a newbie on this but this is new territory for me.

Regards

Adrian

01 September 2010, 23:40

It's fairly straightforward, you just need to download a copy of the new Mahara release tarball, copy it onto your hosted site, and follow the instructions on the upgrade page:

http://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Upgrading_Mahara

02 September 2010, 2:35

Hi I am upgrading to mahara 1.2.6 and because I have only just started simply deleted old install and started again.  Except I cannot get the database setting right.  Can someone clarify what the following should look like:

$cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';
$cfg->dbport   = null;

I am installing a hosted website.

Do I need to change localhost to something like /home/..........

02 September 2010, 6:09

Hi Adrian and everybody,

let me introduce myself : a primary teacher, within Moodle since 2005. New To Mahara

With your host SQL admin app, find any variables, eg

$cfg->dbtype   = 'mysql5';
$cfg->dbhost   = 'SQL server';
$cfg->dbport   = null;
$cfg->dbname   = 'Mahara Database';
$cfg->dbuser   = 'Mahara Database user';
$cfg->dbpass   = 'password';

I hope it helps.