| Upgrading to Coranto is -- most of the time -- a quick,
painless procedure. It shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes,
and all your existing news items, users, and settings will
be preserved. (There are a few minor exceptions to this: addon
settings may not be preserved, though settings for the News
Categories addon will be. As well, NewsPro addons will not
work with Coranto, though many NewsPro addons now have Coranto
versions.)
To begin, you must have NewsPro version 3.8. If
you have an earlier version of NewsPro, this will be a two-step
upgrade: first, you'll have to upgrade NewsPro to version
3.8 (see the NewsPro site) and then you can continue with
the Coranto upgrade.
The Coranto upgrade process is divided into three
steps, each with their own page of instructions. First,
you'll
download the Coranto upgrade program. Then,
you'll let it convert your NewsPro data. Finally,
you'll download Coranto itself.
The files for this first step are in this .zip file. Download
it and upload its contents (crcfg.dat, cruser.pl, and npa_upgrade.pl)
to your NewsPro directory (where newspro.cgi resides). Be
sure to upload the files in ASCII mode (not binary
or auto-detect).
Then, CHMOD crcfg.dat and cruser.pl 666. For a reminder
on how to CHMOD files, you can see the Coranto setup documentation (don't follow
the linked instructions, though, they're for new users only).
Once you've done this, log in to your copy of NewsPro.
If the files were uploaded correctly, you should see a Coranto
Upgrade option on the NewsPro main menu. Once you click
Coranto Upgrade, you'll move to the second step of the upgrade,
and you'll be shown further instructions.
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