ZGL to ionCube

If you are running Web File Share for "Zend Guard Loader" and want to upgrade to PHP 5.4, or simply switch from "Zend Guard Loader" to "ionCube", you will need to replace the Web File Share application files with more appropriate versions.

You can of course download the latest Web File Share version from the client account and install that, but that will mean reconfiguring the user accounts and the settings and loosing the weblinks, shares, file comments, metadata etc.

In order to preserve the current configuration, you need to have a Web File Share installation zip file that matches the version of your current Web File Share installation and which works with "ionCube". If it's not available for download from your Web File Share client account, you can receive an older installation package by contacting us and letting us know your current Web File Share version.

If your Web File Share installation is still running, you can find the its version by appending "?Web File ShareVersion" to its URL. For example: http://demo.WebFileShare.com/?WebFileShareVersion

If your installation is no longer working (due to the server upgrade), run the following SQL command against the MySQL database:

SELECT `val` AS 'Web File Share Version' FROM `df_settings` WHERE `var`='currentVersion'

to get the Web File Share version. If you do not know how to do that, we can retrieve the version for you, if you contact us and provide us FTP access to your Web File Share installation folder.

Once you have a Web File Share installation zip that works with "ionCube", please follow these steps:

  1. Make a backup copy of your existing Web File Share installation folder!
  2. Rename the existing Web File Share installation folder (not the backup copy that you made) to "old_WebFileShare_install".
  3. Extract the contents of the Web File Share installation zip archive for "ionCube" in a folder named like your original Web File Share installation folder. For this example, let's assume the folder name was "WebFileShare".
  4. Delete the default folder "WebFileShare/system/data" and move "old_WebFileShare_install/system/data" inside "WebFileShare/system/" folder to replace the deleted one. Make sure you make no change to the contents of "old_WebFileShare_install", to prevent loosing users documents and settings.
  5. Open a browser and make sure Web File Share works the same as it used to work when the server was running with "Zend Guard Loader". If everything is in order, you can delete the folder "old_WebFileShare_install".

 


Article ID: 608
Created On: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:35 AM
Last Updated On: Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 2:29 PM
Authored by: KB Admin01 [[email protected]]

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