One workaround although it's a bit fiddly:1. Run the upgrade until the error occurs2. Copy the INSERT statement from the error message into a tex...

What version of mysql do you have? - it looks like it may be to old to be compatible with efiction as it doesn't understand the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP...

Ignore the 2nd error - its just a consequence of the first one.The problem is your PHP installation is unable to connect to the mysql server - it hasn...

The error occurred when the install script tried to create the "stories" folder. The operating system user account that PHP it is running un...

Thanks for all the work on this update Tammy - it must have been many a boring hour tidying up all that code. Most people aren't going to realise...

This is fixed in 3.3

A pure fan fiction site is unlikely to really test the limits of space or bandwidth. In fact on most shared hosting servers, if your site becomes popu...

The backup of the old database should be a text file of CREATE TABLE and INSERT sql statements which you can run from phpmysqladmin on your new server...

It's a typo in the upgrade script - search upgrade.php for "in_series" and remove the _

That's old enough that it might not understand the ENGINE keyword. Try removing ENGINE=myisam from that and any other statements in the upgrade s...

What version of mysql are you using - it says 12.22 at the top but that is not a valid mysql version number - it will be 3.23, 4.0.x, 4.1.x or 5.0.x. ...

If XXX is your table and YYY is your field, AAA is your old number and BBB is your new number:UPDATE XXX SET YYY = CASE WHEN YYY='AAA' THEN ...

The following fuction could be used in versioncheck.php to download the version number - it uses CURL if available like the current version check code...

Another way to do it that may be easier for you is comment out line 36 of the update.php script and run it again. If it still fails comment out line 3...