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[seyfin]

Originally Posted by candc

Are you able to confirm the random free shipping bug has been solved?

From CHANELOG

[!] 12 Jul 2011, aim √ Bug (0110954): Problem with zero shipping cost in certain cases. Fixed.

[seyfin]

Originally Posted by Keys

I am having problems understanding the upgrade instructions.

It sounds to me that I should upload the zip file to the website and decompress it there....but how? Seems strange to me that the instructions are in the compressed zip. Was i not supposed to decompress it?

When I attempt to upload the decompressed folders to the 4.4.3 store directory, it wants to overwrite what is there. Is that correct?

Sorry if this is a simple question, but I am lost reading the instructions sent with the upgrade.

Actually, you can follows two ways:

1) Decompress the archive on your local computer, then upload all the decompressed folders and files on your server to your X-Cart installation folder. This way is generally used when you have FTP access your web-server, but no SSH access.

2) Upload the archive on your server to your X-Cart installation folder, then decompress it using a shell command, for example "tar -xzvf Upgrade_from_4.4.3_to_4.4.4.tgz". This way is generally used when you have SSH access to your web-server.

Some existing files in you X-Cart installation may be overwritten by the files from the upgrade package, it is OK.

[seyfin]

Originally Posted by MSM

After I updated to 4.4.4 I discovered that the Eway Credit Card (eWAY - XML payment) processor is now called "eWAY Merchant Hosted Payment" and had reverted to test mode.

No information or record of transactions was being recorded at the eWAY Business Centre and I had a few failed sales.

I've restored the old /payment/cc_eway.php file for now and it's working again.

I know that in this update they did some tweaks to the eWay module: [*] 05 Aug 2011, aim √ Improvement (0111351): Updated 'eWAY Merchant Hosted Payment' and 'eWay - Hosted payment' and 'eWAY - Stored payment (Shared)' methods.

As far as I know, there are just minor changes in the code apart from the changed name.

I suppose the failed orders appeared when the payment module was set to TEST mode? You probably just needed to switch it back to LIVE mode.

Anyway, if you find any bugs in the updated payment module, please report it at http://bugtracker.qtmsoft.com/bug_report_page.php

Thank you.

[seyfin]

Originally Posted by cflsystems

Is there a reason the MySQL server (host) is now listing the path to mysql instead of just "localhost"? during installation and in config.php

This is a small improvement:
[*] Improvement: *MISCELLANEOUS* Default value for mysql host is obtained from php default settings for X-Cart installer.Thanks2Abr

Here are the changes made in install.php

- $mysqlhost = empty($params['mysqlhost']) ? 'localhost' : $params['mysqlhost'];
+ $mysqlhost = 'localhost';
+ if (function_exists('ini_get')) {
+ $default_host = ini_get("mysql.default_host");
+ $default_socket = ini_get("mysql.default_socket");
+ $mysqlhost = ($default_host ? $default_host : "localhost").($default_socket ? ":".$default_socket : "");
+ }

Some hosting companies use specific MySQL configuration, and those settings may differ from commonly used settings like mysql host = 'localhost'.

Now, the install script takes the necessary MySQL server settings from PHP settings.

[Ana]

Originally Posted by Keys

Hi All,

I am having problems understanding the upgrade instructions.



It sounds to me that I should upload the zip file to the website and decompress it there....but how? Seems strange to me that the instructions are in the compressed zip. Was i not supposed to decompress it?

When I attempt to upload the decompressed folders to the 4.4.3 store directory, it wants to overwrite what is there. Is that correct?

Sorry if this is a simple question, but I am lost reading the instructions sent with the upgrade.

Any help is appreciated.

Bob

Bob,

Read this thoroughly:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=191473&postcount=1

Do not attempt to upgrade on a live store.

Ana

[MSM]

Hi Seyfin,

No, the failed orders occured when it was live and all the settings were correct. I spent a fair bit of time testing it before I rolled back the file. I'll head on down to bug tracker.

Anyways, everything else in the update seems to be working fine.

Thanks for your support,

Mike

Originally Posted by seyfin

As far as I know, there are just minor changes in the code apart from the changed name.

I suppose the failed orders appeared when the payment module was set to TEST mode? You probably just needed to switch it back to LIVE mode.

Anyway, if you find any bugs in the updated payment module, please report it at http://bugtracker.qtmsoft.com/bug_report_page.php

Thank you.

[RichieRich]

im testing 4.4.4 to see if to use as a live platform, so far even disabling most of the modules, it appears incredibly slow, i would like to hear thoughts on this. It seems 10 times slower than a 4.2x installation

[MSM]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

im testing 4.4.4 to see if to use as a live platform, so far even disabling most of the modules, it appears incredibly slow, i would like to hear thoughts on this. It seems 10 times slower than a 4.2x installation

I'm not seeing any increase in perceivable latency from 4.4.3 or any of the other 4.4.X versions but have never used 4.2x 4.4x may be more of a resourse hog.

I found this kicked things along considerably.

Under General Settings: Optimization settings - Use speed-up tool for Javascript - Use speed-up tool for CSS - You have to tweak an .htaccess file.

Turn your cache's on also.

[Mr. G]

Sergey, in the very first sentence of the 441 to 444 Upgrade Notes, it says, "If any hot fix was applied to X-Cart, it is recommended to uninstall this hot fix to reduce the possibility of an unsuccessful upgrade." Please clarify what a hotfix is. Is a hotfix a patch? QT has applied the patches as listed in the attached doc. I have made changes as listed there. Do I need to uninstall/revert each of these before doing the upgrade?

Also, assuming that my 3rd party modules (shown below) are 4.4.4 compatible, do they still need to be uninstalled before the upgrade?

[seyfin]

Originally Posted by Mr. G

Sergey, in the very first sentence of the 441 to 444 Upgrade Notes, it says, "If any hot fix was applied to X-Cart, it is recommended to uninstall this hot fix to reduce the possibility of an unsuccessful upgrade." Please clarify what a hotfix is. Is a hotfix a patch? QT has applied the patches as listed in the attached doc. I have made changes as listed there. Do I need to uninstall/revert each of these before doing the upgrade?

Hot fix is a patch. Patch incorporates some changes to files. So, generally applying a patch (hot-fix) means making changes to X-Cart source files.

If you have any changes applied to X-Cart source files (for example to cart.php), the upgrade routine may trigger "Could not patch" error on the changed files. In this case, you have to install some patches (for example cart.php.diff) from the upgrade package manually; alternatively, you can restore the original source files, upgrade your cart, then re-implement your custom changes on the upgraded source files (if necessary).

Feel free to contact our support team should you require any assistance on upgrading your X-Cart.

See also:

* http://help.qtmsoft.com/index.php?title=X-Cart:To_apply_a_patch_manually#What_is_diff_.28pat ch.29_file.3F
* http://help.qtmsoft.com/index.php?title=X-Cart:Upgrading

Originally Posted by Mr. G

Also, assuming that my 3rd party modules (shown below) are 4.4.4 compatible, do they still need to be uninstalled before the upgrade?

Basically, they need not.

However, if 3rd party modules installed in your cart change any X-Cart source files, you may get "Could not patch" error on the files being patched by the upgrade routine.

In this case, you may need to follow the scenario suggested above: restore the original source files that triggered the "Could not patch" error, upgrade your cart, then re-implement the necessary custom changes on the upgraded source files.