Upgrade from 1.6.6 to 1.6.6a

[flammer]

When I try to download the 1.6.6a upgrade installer it gives me a error saying "Need XAMPP version 1.6.5, but cannot find this version. So must abort installation" but I have 1.6.6 installed. Should I try to download the Selfextracting 7-ZIP archive?

[Sean-Michael]

I would say yes if you used the 7-Zip in the first place?

[flammer]

I would say yes if you used the 7-Zip in the first place?

I have always used the installers to install xampp I'm just want to be sure if it is safe to use the Selfextracting 7-ZIP archive because I just do not want to lose my database.

[Sean-Michael]

I'm no pro, and would wait for further feed back, perhaps this is a bug or registry issue. It's my understanding that updates will not remove databases but there is always the old "Full Backup" before updating method

Once again I am no pro, and have always used the 7-Zip package.

Can you point me to the file you downloaded? In the downloads I see this,

Upgrade Package 1.6.6a:
With Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51a, PHP 5.2.5 + 4.4.8, phpMyAdmin 2.11.4, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.25 for XAMPP 1.6.5 + 1.6.6. CHANGES

did you get your installer there?

[flammer]

I'm no pro, and would wait for further feed back, perhaps this is a bug or registry issue. It's my understanding that updates will not remove databases but there is always the old "Full Backup" before updating method

Once again I am no pro, and have always used the 7-Zip package.

Can you point me to the file you downloaded? In the downloads I see this,

Upgrade Package 1.6.6a:
With Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51a, PHP 5.2.5 + 4.4.8, phpMyAdmin 2.11.4, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.25 for XAMPP 1.6.5 + 1.6.6. CHANGES

did you get your installer there?

before 1.6.6a was out i downloaded the upgrade for 1.6.5 to 1.6.6 then 1.6.6a came out so I was trying to download the upgrade for 1.6.6a. I did get the installer from the http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641 and I have never downloaded it from anywhere else. I downloaded the Upgrade Package 1.6.6a Installer

[sari42]

the 7z exe will override the mysql db ("users, pw...") and all your (possibly amended) config files- DO BACKUP!
I always have my datadir outside of the xampp folder.

[Sean-Michael]

I should have made myself clear as well.

I've used the 7-zip package all along, meaning that I first got a full distribution 7-zip and used update packages (7-Zip) ever since.

I've never had any configuration files overridden using this process. Now, you've used the installer and that is different but I would think the updates update the same files for each method, just uses different a different process to achieve the goal?