Instructions to update WF-Downloads 2.0x/3.00rc1 to 3.10 If you want to import from MyDownloads please select 'Import'. |
The SmartFactory STRONGLY recommends you take a full backup before INSTALLING or UPDATING any module.
A lot of important changes in WF-Downloads were introduced with version 3. Before you start updating please make sure that you read and understand the Important notes.
We made a lot of changes to WF-Downloads. There are a lot of obselete files now that will no longer be used.
Upload the 'wfdownloads' folder to {xoops-rootdirectory}/modules folder
Login as administrator and enter Xoops Administration page. Select System --> modules and update wfdownloads
Since we removed 'per file' permissions in WF-Downloads you should check if your category permissions are properly setup to allow access to files only to those who are supposed to have it. (see history menu for a better explanation of this change)
If you feel comfortable with this you could delete most of the old files in the 'modules/wfdownloads' directory - if not skip to the next step.
If you want to do this:
- the 'images' subfolder and its contents
- the 'uploads' subfolder and its contents if there are more files in it then just index.php
- any file or folder you might have created yourself that came not from the original WF-Downloads installation
Please note that we are only talking about deleting files. DO NOT uninstall WF-Downloads.
If you feel uncomfortable with this than donīt do it. It will create no problems to skip this step - just some unused files will remain on your server. ;)
If you donīt know the path you can find it on the WF-Downloads admin section main(index)page 'Server Path to XOOPS Root:' and just add the path to the uploads folder.
One example:
if your current setting would be '/uploads'
and your server path would be '/xampp/xampp/htdocs/xoops'
then the new entry for that field would be '/xampp/htdocs/xoops/uploads'.