How to update FarCry 5.0 to 5.0.1?

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Vince

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Jul 23, 2008, 3:55:52 PM7/23/08

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I installed farcry community 5.0.0 about 3 weeks ago by using the
downloaded Zip file located here:

http://www.farcrycms.org/go/download

I am finding some minor issues and rather than posting the bugs I
figured I'd download the latest build after receiving a very nice post
by Jeff on his blog here: http://www.jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/31/FarCry-50-Beta-Released

Version 5.0.1 you say? Excellent! So I downloaded it from Jeff's
download page located here. Even though it says 5.0.0, it does say
nightly build so I'll trust that this is where I get it.

OK, so assuming I'm correct in thinking that I now have the latest
build, how do I update? Do I just copy everything into the core and
overwrite what is there? Am I going to have to go in and edit
anything?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and Jeff, if you are reading
this, thanks very much for what you do for the FarCry community!

Jeff Coughlin

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Jul 24, 2008, 1:18:49 AM7/24/08

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For future reference, developer questions like this are best suited
for the [farcry-dev] mailing list. The [farcry-user] mailing list is
meant for general users and content editors of FarCry. No worries
though. Welcome :)

> OK, so assuming I'm correct in thinking that I now have the latest
> build, how do I update? Do I just copy everything into the core and
> overwrite what is there? Am I going to have to go in and edit
> anything?

This is the process that I usually do:
1. Stop the CF service
2. move the old core folder to a backup location
3. move the new core in place
5. If updating any plugins, I do steps 2 & 3 with them as well
6. start CF

If, however, you don't have these luxuries (maybe you're using a
shared hosting environment), then skip steps 1 - 6 and attempt to
overwrite the files. (I've been working with a test account on a
shared hosting service to see if I could get FarCry 5 working on a
shared host. So far (for upgrading from 5.0 to 5.0.1) I've just
zipped up what I needed, uploaded the ZIP via FTP, called tech
support, and had them extract the files (otherwise uploading all of
those files individually in FTP takes forever :) ).

7. update the application scope (add ?updateapp=1 to the URL or use
the GUI features (checkboxes) for the same effect. You need to be
logged in as an admin for this to work).
8. Check the COAPI tools to see if any Types or Rules need to be
deployed (Admin-only feature).

Thats should do it.

> and Jeff, if you are reading this, thanks very much for what you
> do for the FarCry community!

Thanks. But the guys at Daemon deserve more credit than I (they're
the brains behind most of this stuff :) ).