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I'm trying to upgrade a site from EE1 to EE2 and I followed the EL docs to the letter but when I go to run the wizard I get "Click here to install a brand new copy of ExpressionEngine". Anyone know why this might be occurring?

UPDATE: Forgot to add that I would be upgrading an EE1.7.3 site to EE2.5.5 running on a MT GS server.

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  • Stuart - does your config.php file have any conditional statements in it to determine the value of the array members? One common one is, for example, $config['daylight_savings'] = (date('I') == 1) ? 'y ' : 'n';. I've found in the past that statements like this in config.php trip-up the EE upgrader. Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 14:17
  • Nope. I've started adding that to my EE2 default config.php file I use but had never setup a master config like that for my EE1 sites or added anything on my own. Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 14:24
  • @StuartMcCoy, whatever happened with this? Commented Oct 20, 2013 at 12:05

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Stuart,

This usually indicates that EE is not finding your old EE 1 config.php. Step 4 of the upgrade instructions has you placing your backed up EE 1 config.php in /system/expressionengine/config:

Copy your old 1.x version of system/config.php to system/expressionengine/config/config.php

And that should help you to avoid this issue. I know you said you're following the docs to the letter, but please do double check that your config.php in /system/expressionengine/config is the EE 1 config. That should get you moving forward!

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  • Yeah, I did that step. The only issue I might be having trouble with is the renaming of the system folder. I had renamed it previously and it's not clear that I need to rename it to "system_old" or "my_system_folder_name_old" and what happens to the new system folder. Does it need to stay "system" or does it need to be named after the older system folder? I've tried both approaches but nothing changes the fact that I'm getting the "install brand new site" instead of running the upgrade wizard. Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 18:41
  • Your old system folder should be renamed to anything. _old is just a convention to let you know. That's your backup, you see? The new system folder can then most easily be renamed to whatever your system folder was before. So if you had your EE 1 system folder of "enterhere", then you would rename it to "enterhere_old" and upload the EE 2 system folder as "enterhere".
    – Lisa
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 18:58
  • That's what I thought but I had the same problem. I'll try from a fresh copy of the site and see what happens. Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 19:55
  • Started over with a fresh version of the EE1 site I'm updating. I renamed index.php and my_sys to index.php_old and my_sys_old. I copied over index.php, admin.php, system, and themes to the EE1 site. I renamed system to my_sys and updated index.php and admin.php to reflect the changed system folder name. I copied over config.php from my_sys_old to my_sys/expressionengin/config/config.php. I set file permissions for config.php and database.php to 666 and cache to 777. Ran the wizard by going to my_site/admin.php and once again I get the message to install a brand new site. #totally confused. Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 20:45
  • Something somewhere is pointing wrongly. Is there a .htaccess redirect in place? Uh, I hate to suggest it but having done this - are you sure you're FTP'd to the right site? I'm hoping someone else has some other ideas here.
    – Lisa
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 21:26

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