Magento upgrade from 1.7 to 1.9
Upgrade Roadmap for CE 1.9.0.1 from 1.7
- Take a backup of current database and current 1.7 code. place maintenance.flag file inside 1.7 code folder to put website offline.
- Download latest magento from the http://www.magentocommerce.com/download
- Remove all folders and files from your 1.7 code except
maintenance.flag
(but you should have backup somewhere) and place all folders and files from the 1.9. - Now from your 1.7 merge your following custom folders into the 1.9
- Community
app/code/community
- Local
app/code/local
- Media
- your theme or package (
app/design/frontend/default/<your theme>
orapp/design/frontend/<your package>
) - custom folders from Skin (both for adminhtml and frontend).
- copy your custom xml files from
app/etc/modules/
to currentapp/etc/modules/
- any custom admin theme folder from
adminhtml/default/yourtheme
. - copy your custom folders from
adminhtml/default/default/
(1.7) to adminhtml/default/default/ (1.9). - custom js files if any from
app/js/
.
- Community
- Now go to
app/etc/local.xml
.Edit database details their.put your database username and password and database name. - Remove
maintenance.flag
file and check the site in the browser. it is done.
First of all, create the database same as current magento 1.7. Then download magento 1.9.0.1 from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download
Now run the installation of magento 1.9 and choose the database of your old website (magento 1.7.0.2)
Now you can take the your theme and skin from old version to new. Then after check one by one third party extension from old to new. I did it and it will work for for me.
Magento 1.x upgrade instruction using SSH or Command line:
1) Go to your Magento root directory
cd /path/to/your/magento/folder
2) Enable Maintenance mode for your Magento site
For this, you have to create an empty file named maintenance.flag
in your Magento root directory.
touch maintenance.flag
3) Clear Cache & Sessions
rm -rf var/cache/* var/session/*
4) Check Compilation & Disable it if Enabled
Check Compiler Status
php -f shell/compiler.php -- state
If the Compiler Status
is Disabled
then you can skip this step and move on to the next step.
If the Compiler Status
is Enabled
then you have to disable it with the following command:
php -f shell/compiler.php -- disable
5) Give write permission to all Magento files and folders
chmod -R 777 .
6) Give 550 permission mage file
Mage file is a shell script file. With 550 permission, we are just making the file non-writable + readable & executable by user and group only.
chmod 550 ./mage
7) Change config settings to stable
./mage config-set preferred_state stable
8) Upgrade Magento
You can list all the installed packages with the following command:
./mage list-installed
You can list all the upgradable packages with the following command:
./mage list-upgrades
The following command will upgrade all the packages:
./mage upgrade-all --force
It will take some time to complete the upgrade.
9) Reindex Data
After completing the upgrade, we should reindex all data.
php shell/indexer.php reindexall
10) Then, clear cache and session again.
rm -rf var/cache/* var/session/*
11) Enable Compilation only if it was Enabled before upgrade
Check step 4) above.
If Compilation was not enabled in step 4) then you can skip this step and go to next step.
If Compilation was enabled for your website and you had disabled it at step 4) then you have to Enable it with the following command:
php -f shell/compiler.php -- enable
12) Change files permission
Before the upgrade, we have changed the permission of all files and folders to 777. You should also give proper permission to all files and folders of your Magento site.
Convert files permission to 644 and folders permission to 755
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; && find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Give read-write full permission, i.e. 777 to var and media folders.
chmod -R 777 var media
Give 550 permission to mage shell script file
chmod 550 ./mage
13) Check installed packages version
Check the versions of the installed packages. The packages should show the latest version as they are already upgraded now.
./mage list-installed
14) List upgradable packages
List the upgradable packages (packages that need an upgrade). This should result in a message saying No upgrades available because all packages have been already upgraded to the latest version.
./mage list-upgrades
15) Disable Maintenance mode to make the site Live
rm -f maintenance.flag
This will delete the file maintenance.flag
and then the site will be live again.
You can now login to Magento admin and see the Magento version displayed in the footer section. It should show the latest version number.
Source: Magento 1.x – Update / Upgrade to Latest Version via both Browser & Command Line