[Forum] Upgrading from 3.7.2 to latest version of 4 - very confused

[holwebs]

Hi,

H have what I think is a fairly small forum (around 3000 members - around 250 active (a quiet time of year), 64,000 posts) still running v3.7.2 with a few mods including vbSEO & some changes to the header & footer etc. of the default style. I do have a testvb as well.

I think it's time to upgrade to the latest version of 4 - our severs are being upgraded to PHP 5.3 - but there appears to be a lot of conflicting info about how complicated the upgrade process is, whether I can upgrade directly to 4 or need to upgrade to 3.8 first etc. etc. There are some very long sticky threads in this forum but then I view the video at https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/cont...to-vBulletin-4 & it seems very straightforward.

Where should I start?

[Trevor Hannant]

If you have a test site, follow the video and upgrade it first to check the process out. Rememebr to disable ALL plugins and products before running the upgrade then download and install vB4 compatible versions after the upgrade

[holwebs]

Thank you for that. Having now looked at the System Requirements for VB, I am wondering whether I NEED to upgrade to VB4. Our server is currently running PHP 5.2.17 and will be upgraded to PHP 5.3. Is VB 3.7.2 compatible with PHP 5.3? I've tried to find out what benefit there is in upgrading to VB4 as we are happy with it as it is & am not really sure what that is (?) or maybe we should just upgrade to the latest version of VB3?

[Trevor Hannant]

No 3.7.x is not compatible with PHP 5.3 - 3.8.7 is or you could take the opportunity to upgrade to vB4 now.