Interspire Website Publisher Guide to Upgrading from 4.5 to 5.0
This is an upgrade guide for Interspire Website Publisher. If you have any problems or errors during installation, please send in a support ticket via your client area.
Contents
1. Pre-Upgrade Checks
- To upgrade to Interspire Website Publisher 5.0, you must have Interspire Website Publisher 4.5.0 or above installed already. If you have an older copy or ArticleLive, you will first need to upgrade to Interspire Website Publisher 4.5 before you can continue.
- Create a new empty folder to upload into. Do not upload over an existing installation of 4.5.
- To import, both the installations (4.5 and 5.0) must be on the same domain.
- Be aware that the following feature that are present in 4.5 are not present in 5.0:
- Google Adsense Integration
- iSnare & Article Marketer Integration
- Interspire Email Marketer (formerly SendStudio) Integration
- Glossary
- System Tool: User Emailing
- Article Feature: Content Series
- Front end article/blog submission & user login
2. Uploading Files
Note: When upgrading from 4.5 to 5.0 do not upload over the existing installation. You will need to upload Interspire Website Publisher to a separate location. You can move your installation after the import process is complete.
Unzip the Website Publisher package onto your local hard drive. If you don't have Winzip you can download a trial for free.
Using an FTP program (such as Filezilla, which is free, or a commercial package such as CuteFTP), login to your web server and upload the files from the zip, ensuring you are uploading to a new empty folder.
Browse to the location that you uploaded the files to and run through the installation wizard to install your copy of Interspire Website Publisher 5.0.
3. Importing your Content
Interspire Website Publisher 5.0 was rebuilt completely, upgrading from 4.5 to 5.0 uses an import process rather than a normal update process. As 5.0 uses a new template system, website designs can not be imported, only your content can be imported. To access the importer navigate to Tools in the top right of your control panel, then click the Website Importer link.
On the page that displays next, select Interspire Website Publisher 4.5 from the My Current Website is Running select box and then a new textbox should appear labelled 'My IWP 4.5 Home Page is'.
Enter the complete URL to the public area home page of your copy of 'Interspire Website Publisher 4.5' and click on 'Next »'.
Follow the steps in the wizard to import your website's content into Interspire Website Publisher 5.0.
"301 Redirect"s are created for all the article and blog URLs that were used in 4.5. When users or search engines access the old URLs, they will be redirected to the new URL.
5. Moving your site
If the 5.0 website is supposed to replace your 4.5 website, then you will now need to move your 5.0 files to the location of the 4.5.
Most FTP programs will allow you to move files using a 'Move' option or by dragging and dropping the files elsewhere on the server.
If you have not already done so, download a copy of all your 4.5 files. Now remove/delete all your 4.5 files via FTP. Alternatively you can move them to another folder via FTP.
Once the 4.5 have been cleared away, move your 5.0 files from their current location to where the 4.5 files were with your FTP client.
Now, in the 5.0 files, open the /configs/config.php file and find these lines: (Note: Your lines will contain different values.)
$config['siteURL'] = 'http://www.example.com/websitepublisher/'; $config['appPath'] = '/websitepublisher/';
You need to change these to reflect the file move you just performed. For this example the 5.0 files were moved from the /websitepublisher/ directory to the base directory. So for that we would now change these values to:
$config['siteURL'] = 'http://www.example.com/'; $config['appPath'] = '/';
If you moved your 5.0 files to another folder, reflect the folder change in both values. The 'appPath' option should be the full path not including the domain name.
Once completed, login to your control panel and ensure the settings on the settings page are correct and resave them.
Congratulations, your copy of Interspire Website Publisher 4.5 has been imported into Interspire Website Publisher 5.0!
