Upgrading Emailworks Maillist Manager

From Emailworks Wiki / Documentation

Important: Please take backup of your Emailworks Maillist Manager directory and database before upgrading to the new version

In order to upgrade your old version Emailworks to the latest Emailworks Maillist Manager version, you need to have Emailworks v4.0.0 or higher version installed. Unfortunately, Emailworks3, Emailworks2 and Emailworks v1 versions can not be upgraded to the latest Emailworks Maillist Manager version.

There are two methods for upgrading your Emailworks Maillist Manager to the latest version:

• Manual upgrade
• Automated upgrade

Manual Upgrade

You can upgrade if you have at least Emailworks v4.0.0 or higher version

Please follow these easy steps to complete your upgrade:

• Backup your Emailworks Maillist Manager directory on the server
• Backup your Emailworks Maillist Manager database on the server
• Download the latest Emailworks Maillist Manager version from your client area
• Unzip and upload all latest version Emailworks Maillist Manager files to your Emailworks Maillist Manager directory on the server

Important Note: If you are using Panic's Transmit FTP client on Mac OS X, be sure to select "MERGE" instead of "REPLACE". "REPLACE" option will delete all of the existing files from your Emailworks Maillist Manager directory before it uploads the new ones and this will cause your configuration files and data files to be deleted you previously had.

Important: If you are upgrading from an older version than v4.0.3, follow these additional steps:

• Login to your client area
• Download license.dat file again from "Downloads" section
• Upload license.dat file to Emailworks/data/ directory

• Run install utility which can be found at http://yourdomain.com/Emailworks Maillist Manager/install/

Once installation utility is executed, it will detect the upgrade and redirect you to the upgrade utility. Upgrade utility is a one-step process which will upgrade your old Emailworks Maillist Manager database and also perform required changes in the file system. Once upgrade is completed, you will notice a success screen.

Do not forget to delete the install directory after upgrading to the latest version.

Automated Upgrade [version 4.0.4 and Higher]

Whenever a new version gets released, your Emailworks Maillist Manager will detect the new version availability and inform you with a notice in the Administrator Area. Once you are ready to upgrade, you can just click that notice link and Emailworks Maillist Manager will show you FTP access information for your current Emailworks Maillist Manager installation.

Requested information is;

• FTP Host
• FTP Username
• FTP Password
• Emailworks Maillist Manager path on your FTP server

Once the request information is entered correctly, Emailworks Maillist Manager will download the latest version from Emailworks server and upgrade your existing Emailworks Maillist Manager installation. This process may take several minutes. Please be patient and do not close your web browser during the process.