Hi,
I’m using a “normal” installation of Xibo right now and I want to update to Xibo 1.8.1 without Docker.
Can I do this like normal upgrade, or do I need to do a complete reinstall because of the changed structure?
Did anyone else do an upgrade from 1.7.9 on a shared hosting environment?
Thanks
Kevin
According to the Documentation it should work, however, when I upgrade by doing an install of 1.8.1 with the existing database, it says:
An error occurred populating the database. Statement number: 74. Error Message = [SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘isSystemNotification’ in ‘field list’]. File = [data.sql]. SQL = [INSERT INTO group (groupID, group, IsUserSpecific, IsEveryone, isSystemNotification) VALUES (1, ‘Users’, 0, 0, 0), (2, ‘Everyone’, 0, 1, 0), (3, ‘xibo_admin’, 1, 0, 1), (4, ‘System Notifications’, 0, 0, 1)].
After that, it doesn’t go on because it’s seeing entries already:
An error occurred populating the database. Statement number: 36. Error Message = [SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table ‘oauth_client_scopes’ already exists]. File = [structure.sql]. SQL = [CREATE TABLE oauth_client_scopes( clientId varchar(254) NOT NULL, scopeId varchar(254) NOT NULL, id int PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8].
I’m glad this is a clone test, but how can I do a clean upgrade?
Tudududu… I missed a step in the upgrade 
Replace your backup settings.php file in your Xibo installation directory
That’s an important step! 
Since it’s
You will probably have an issue to make XMR working for you, but other than that, everything should be fine, may I assume that the upgrade was successful or do you still have some issues?
A test upgrade seemed to be working, although when I did the same with the primary setup, when I put back the settings.php and got to the CMS, it just logs me in and shows me the new CMS without updating database tables. In the “version” table I see version 1.8.1 but many functions were clearly not working and I don’t see my layouts.
I’m restoring a backup today and trying again for the sake of perfection 
And by “shared hosting environment” i mean it’s shared with other websites of our own. I used an alias to set this up and we have access to the server itself.
And a new fresh install doesn’t seem to be working either, I suppose because we use nginx and Apache. Seems like I have to put up a new VM just for Xibo 
If 1.8.1 is in the version table then the upgrade definitely ran. At a guess the issues you’re seeing are browser cache related. You should clear your browser cache and you may well then have a working system.
Well, it didn’t work out perfectly after all. We decided to go with the cloud hosted version