update 4 to 5 hangs on updater

[Anthony OConnor]

I have a number of sites I need to upgrade from 4 to 5 and hopefully
then to 6!

When running the installer I get the following response, then the
install process simply hangs.

updating security... complete

updating config... complete

creating workflow... complete

updating categories... complete

updating dmWebskinAncestor Table... complete

updating dmNavigation Table... complete

Deploying farWebfeed Table...

Fetching results...

I have commented out the user group membership section from /core/
packages/security/farcryUD.cfc
in case that was the issue, but nothing has changed.

Other possibly relevant information:
I'm running CF9 in my dev environment - we've never setup FarCry in
that environment before - FC4 doesn't get along woth CF9 due to the
location function duplication.

I was hoping to upgrade FC from 4 to 5 even though the site doesn't
work in that environment. The FC project I'm working with I have
pulled down from production which is still running CF8 with FC4.

Actually typing this question out has made me realize a simpler
solution maybe to create a copy of a project in my production
environment where I still have CF8 and test updating FC there first to
rule out if this is related to a CF9 conflict.

I'd appreciate any ideas that are unrelated to CF9 conflicts anyway -
and if you can categorically say FC4 to 5 will not work with CF9 that
would also be useful information!

Thanks in advance,
Anthony

[Jeff Coughlin]

I'd appreciate any ideas that are unrelated to CF9 conflicts anyway -
and if you can categorically say FC4 to 5 will not work with CF9 that
would also be useful information!

To get older versions of FarCry (4 and 5.0) to work in CF9, you just need to comment-out the duplicated methods in FarCry that are now covered in CF9.  I think there are two of them if I recall correctly.  I believe they are both in the same file.  I think the other one was arraySort() or something.

I have a number of sites I need to upgrade from 4 to 5 and hopefully

then to 6!...

I was hoping to upgrade FC from 4 to 5 even though the site doesn't
work in that environment.  The FC project I'm working with I have
pulled down from production which is still running CF8 with FC4.

FarCry 5.1 had the biggest DB changes since 4.0 was released.  You might want to try upgrading from 4.x to 5.0, then 5.1/5.2.  You may not need to do that, but 5.1 went through some pretty big changes (mostly in the security and permissions).  Couldn't hurt.  But if using CF9, just make sure to make those two changes mentioned above or you might run into issues.

Regards,

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[Anthony OConnor]

Thanks for you help on this. I was able to install FarCry 4
successfully on ColdFusion 9.

For any future searches here's what I needed to change:

/core/admin/includes/cfFunctionWrappers.cfm

comment out the two functions "location" and "trace"

I personally didn't run into a problem with arrayReverse - I'll update
if that become apparent at a later date.

Anthony