Hello,

I'm running Dolphin 5.5 and i need to upgraded to 5.6 just to get the Orca forum working on my site. I know, not a lot of people support the Orca but i like to keep the whole package together and not deviated by installing a third part forum.

I tried the upgraded on a test server i setup at home(thank the GOD!) based on perv experience with dolphin I'm not willing to touch my live site before i know its working.
I got dolphin 5.5 to work on my test site, did the upgraded and ran into many problems and most are related to database.

If i were to do this on my live site, i would have been down for a good month!
I have limited experience programming and database management.
month later I'm no where near figuring out whats wrong and i need help upgrading dolphin 5.5 to 5.x

please help.

I followed the readme file instructions
when far as copying the new files from the upgrade package(step 6/7 little confusing but i'm assuming there talking about the upgraded package).
did a test run and displayed the message : Error Database activation failed.

I'm stuck and not sure where to go from here.

any ideas you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
i been posting this issue for the last couple of weeks with no answers.



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1)	Unarchive (unzip) the «update» package
2)	In the root directory of Dolphin create the «update/» directory and copy «update» package there.
3)	Make the «inc» and «media» directories available for recording («chmod-v777 inc/ media/» command)
4)	Open your browser and load the next URL:http://www.yourDolphin.com/update/
5)	Follow the instructions. After the message «renewal has been finished» is received, forbid the recording in the «inc/» directory («chmod-v755 inc/» command).
6)	Unarchive the Dolphin 5.6 package
7)	Copy everything (exept the directory «install/») to the root directory of your Dolphin replacing old files with new
8)	Fulfil the following commands:
chmod -v 777 backup/ cache/ langs/ media/images/banners/ media/images/blog/ media/images/gallery/ media/images/profile media/images/profile_bg/ media/images/sdating/ media/sound/ media/video/ tmp/  
   chmod -v 666 inc/params.inc.php ray/inc/cron.inc.php ray/modules/chat/js/admin.js ray/modules/im/js/invite.js ray/modules/presence/js/update.js orca/inc/header.inc.php ray/modules/im/js/open.js
   chmod -v 755 inc/ periodic/
   chmod -v 644 periodic/cmd.php periodic/notifies.php ray/inc/header.inc.php
9)	Delete the «update/» directory from your site

Ready!