L. Arnold's picture

I just came back at this from another angle and I have gotten the new system to show up intact (so far).

In SSH an Subversion from my /var/www folder

svn checkout http://svn.magentocommerce.com/source/branches/1.5

This created a Folder called /var/www/1.5

I Turned off Apache

Renamed /var/www/magento to /var/www/magento1.4

renamed /var/www/1.5 to /var/www/magento

FTP Copied to local magento/1.4  and local magento.1.5 folders both sets of :

/var/www/.../media

/var/www/.../downloader

/var/www/.../app/etc/local.xml

Renamed 1.5 version /media and /downloader to /media1.5 and /downloader1.5

FTP'd up to new (1.5 version Magento) the full 1.4 folders of /media and /downloader

/var/www/.../media/

/var/www/.../downloader/

and installed the nonexistant (assuming a new install is about to happen)

/var/www/.../app/etc/local.xml

Site is displaying as a footer:

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uploaded to new magento folder

magento-cleanup.php  to get all my permissions working correctly.

Need to work on this some more: error is in my "Magento Connect" screen though all my extensions are there: 

		"If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) or set up FTP Connection on the Magento Connect Manager Settings tab."


Need to do a bunch of Testing...

(I did inadvertently get downloader to upgrad earlier, so this seems to be working better than one might expect:

Most files are now owned by root rather than www-data.  (CHOWN I suspect).  Hopefully that will do it.

I expect I have messed completely with "subversion" changing all these names and folders. 

CHOWN is first,  then Subversion

Need to also look at what sort of Cache may or may not be in place now...  The Data and the media and the Site are working though so far.