Upgrade and migration

Preparation

Backup your data

Shaarli stores all user data under the data directory:

data/config.php - main configuration file
data/datastore.php - bookmarked links
data/ipbans.php - banned IP addresses

See Shaarli configuration for more information about Shaarli resources.

It is recommended to backup this repository before starting updating/upgrading Shaarli:

users with SSH access: copy or archive the directory to a temporary location
users with FTP access: download a local copy of your Shaarli installation using your favourite client

Migrating data from a previous installation

As all user data is kept under data, this is the only directory you need to worry about when migrating to a new installation, which corresponds to the following steps:

backup the data directory
install or update Shaarli:
- fresh installation - see Download and installation
- update - see the following sections
check or restore the data directory

Upgrading from release archives

All tagged revisions can be downloaded as tarballs or ZIP archives from the releases page.

We recommend using the releases from the stable branch, which are available as:

gzipped tarball - https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/archive/stable.tar.gz
ZIP archive - https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/archive/stable.zip

Once downloaded, extract the archive locally and update your remote installation (e.g. via FTP) -be sure you keep the contents of the data directory!

After upgrading, access your fresh Shaarli installation from a web browser; the configuration will then be automatically updated, and new settings added to data/config.php (see Shaarli configuration for more details).

Upgrading with Git

Updating a community Shaarli

If you have installed Shaarli from the community Git repository, simply pull new changes from your local clone:

$ cd /path/to/shaarli
$ git pull

From github.com:shaarli/Shaarli
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating ebd67c6..521f0e6
Fast-forward
 application/Url.php   | 1 +
 shaarli_version.php   | 2 +-
 tests/Url/UrlTest.php | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Shaarli >= v0.8.x: install/update third-party PHP dependencies using Composer:

$ composer update --no-dev

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
  - Installing shaarli/netscape-bookmark-parser (v1.0.1)
    Downloading: 100%

Migrating and upgrading from Sebsauvage's repository

If you have installed Shaarli from Sebsauvage's original Git repository, you can use Git remotes to update your working copy.

The following guide assumes that:

you have a basic knowledge of Git branching and remote repositories
the default remote is named origin and points to Sebsauvage's repository
the current branch is master
- if you have personal branches containing customizations, you will need to rebase them after the upgrade; beware though, a lot of changes have been made since the community fork has been created, so things are very likely to break
the working copy is clean:
- no versioned file has been locally modified
- no untracked files are present

Step 0: show repository information

$ cd /path/to/shaarli

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli (push)

$ git branch -vv
* master 029f75f [origin/master] Update README.md[](.html)

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

Step 1: update Git remotes

$ git remote rename origin sebsauvage
$ git remote -v
sebsauvage  https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli (fetch)
sebsauvage  https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli (push)

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
$ git fetch origin

remote: Counting objects: 3015, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19/19), done.
remote: Total 3015 (delta 446), reused 457 (delta 446), pack-reused 2550
Receiving objects: 100% (3015/3015), 2.59 MiB | 918.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1899/1899), completed with 48 local objects.
From https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master[](.html)
 * [new branch]      stable     -> origin/stable[](.html)
[...][](.html)
 * [new tag]         v0.6.4     -> v0.6.4[](.html)
 * [new tag]         v0.7.0     -> v0.7.0[](.html)

Step 2: use the stable community branch

$ git checkout origin/stable -b stable
Branch stable set up to track remote branch stable from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'stable'

$ git branch -vv
  master 029f75f [sebsauvage/master] Update README.md[](.html)
* stable 890afc3 [origin/stable] Merge pull request #509 from ArthurHoaro/v0.6.5[](.html)

Shaarli >= v0.8.x: install/update third-party PHP dependencies using Composer:

$ composer update --no-dev

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
  - Installing shaarli/netscape-bookmark-parser (v1.0.1)
    Downloading: 100%

Optionally, you can delete information related to the legacy version:

$ git branch -D master
Deleted branch master (was 029f75f).

$ git remote remove sebsauvage

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli (push)

$ git gc
Counting objects: 3317, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (1237/1237), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3317/3317), done.
Total 3317 (delta 2050), reused 3301 (delta 2034)to

Step 3: configuration

After migrating, access your fresh Shaarli installation from a web browser; the configuration will then be automatically updated, and new settings added to data/config.php (see Shaarli configuration for more details).