Installing a newer version of XAMPP

[Coxy]

Hi,
I want to install a new version of XAMPP, but I don't want to mess anything up.

How do I install a newer version? Do I need to unistall anything first? How do I make make sure all the changes I made to apache are still ok in the new version, or must I do everything again?

[Coxy]

Anyone have any help to offer?

[alfred3x]

Yes I'm looking for the same info.

[Dave_L]

What version of XAMPP are you running now?

[delftdamage]

I always use the upgrade packages.
This way you keep all settings and files in the htdocs folder.

It only works from version 1.6.1 I guess.

To be sure I always backup the htdocs folder, php.ini, vhosts.conf, my.cfg, and export my databases to a .txt

If you never made changes to php.ini, vhosts.conf or my.cfg only backup your databases and htdocs folder.

[Coxy]

I have version: 1.5.5

I shall ytry the update package as you suggest, as well as backing up those files you mentioned.

[Dave_L]

The upgrade package won't work for upgrading from 1.5.5 to 1.6.2. You'll need to do a new install.

When doing this kind of upgrade, I backed up the complete XAMPP directory first. Then after doing the new install, I selectively copied over files from the old install, and used other old files for reference (php.ini settings, etc.).

Don't forget to backup any MySQL databases you've created, using phpmyadmin or the mysqldump command, so that you can import them into the new install.