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10 <div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting Update</span></strong></div>
14 <h2>Important Notes</h2>
17 <li>You can easily upload all the files to your installation folder on the
18 server overwriting the existing files, <strong><em>if you take these important
21 <li>Backup (download) the following files to another folder:
23 <li><strong>config_db.php</strong> (contains information about the companies and
26 <li><strong>config.php</strong> (contains various settings. You only need to
27 backup this file if you have done manually changes to it.
29 <li><strong>/lang/installed_languages.inc</strong> (contains information about the
32 <li><strong>/modules/installed_modules.php</strong> (contains information about
33 installed modules, <strong>only vers. 1.1</strong>)
35 <li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
36 these files too. </li>
40 <li>Upload all the new files.
42 <li>Restore the files mentioned in #1. Be <strong>careful</strong> with
43 <strong>config.db</strong>. Look into variances. There might be new variables in
44 the new version. It might be easier to <em>manually change your former values in
47 <li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
48 process earlier). </li>
51 <li>If there are changes to the database structure, please run the script <strong><em>update_db.php</em></strong>
52 from FrontAccounting root installation, Enter the database user and the
53 password and choose the update script from the local harddisk.</li>
54 <li><strong>When updating release 1.XX to release 2.0, you must run the update_db.php script and select the file <em>- alter.sql -</em> that are located in the sql folder. You <em>must</em>
55 do this, before entering FrontAccounting!
56 Enter the database user and the password and choose the alter.sql
57 script. Do the same for the alter2.sql script. If you have
58 already updated release 2.0, you can just run the alter2.sql script.<br />You must also manuelly ensure that you have write permission to the new folder /company/0.</strong></li>