Putty - How to easily update your Elxis istallation.

[jimmyz]

For those who have ssh access to their hosting server and have putty installed on their pcs, here's a how to easily update Elxis istallation with the latest patch:

1. unzip files from elxis_patch_2008.1_r2245_to_2009.0_r2437.zip
2. get into /patch
3. mark all 12objects and 4 files you see there
4. zip them
5. Rename the file as you like. I used "pandora.zip"
6. upload pandora.zip in your live site, on your root directory
7. start putty, execute: "unzip -uo pandora.zip" (without the quotes).
8. replace .htaccess with the new one.

The -uo options should instruct unzip to update existing files and create new ones if needed, as to overwrite existing files without prompting.



If you use admin page cloaking, you'll have to re-enable it.
Dont forget to goto phpmyadmin > SQL (Run SQL query) > Execute the SQL commands, as instructed in elxis_patch_2008.1_r2245_to_2009.0_r2437.zip/README.TXT

Gurus, please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Thank you Elxis!

[datahell]

Nice guide 

[muharihar]

Good Job

[datahell]

Make sure that all files are updated. For me the files on elxis root folder, includes and administrator folder did not get updated! So, execute the command and afterwards make a check.

We will release Updiag's hash files in this week to be able to make an integrity check on Elxis 2009.0 filesystem.

[jimmyz]

datahell is right, check if files are really updated. In linux hosts, I guess that the following quote from http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_unzip.htm, is true:

unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The default behavior (with no options) is to extract into the current directory (and subdirectories below it) all files from the specified ZIP archive. A companion program, zip(1L), creates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ.