PW 2.4 update from 2.3.6

[jsantari]

I've got a new site ready to rollout that was built on 2.3.6 - the productions server is php 5.3.28. I was going to upgrade staging to 2.4 and then go live with it but I see a requirement for php 5.3.8? Does this mean I can't move to 2.4 until my hosting company updates their server?

[apeisa]

5.3.28 > 5.3.8

As always, you can play safe take copy or install fresh PW on same environment.

[jsantari]

In my book it would go 5.3.28, 5.3.29, 5.3.3 which is still less the 5.3.8?

[apeisa]

Nope, version numbers go like this:

5.3.0

5.3.1

5.3.2

5.3.3

5.3.4

5.3.5

5.3.6

5.3.7

5.3.8

5.3.9

5.3.10

5.3.11

etc...

[jsantari]

My bad - of course that's right, it goes sequentially by section - so it's good news, thanks for the clarification 

[Martijn Geerts]

@jsantari. More people have problems reading those version numbers (like me), it's not that obvious at first sight.

[renobird]

Yep. Done that one too.

[renobird]

OK, so I have a site running PW 2.3.7, and the server is running PHP 5.2.17.

There are no plans to upgrade the server to 5.3+ until later this year.

Any options for still be able to run 2.4 in this environment?

Is it something that *might* work?

Started dedicated topic for this issue.

[renobird]

Moved. See above.

[totoff]

Apart from PHP matters, is it safe to upgrade from 2.2.3 to 2.4 directly or should this be done in steps? I have such a case here ...

Thanks

[horst]

The only thing I can think of is the admin theme. This has changed, but you can still work with the old way, (needs to uninstall the default theme first, under modules)

[totoff]

Thanks horst, I'll simply switch to the new default theme than. Doesn't matter.