Logging in to your web page as an administrator?

[DaleReid]

Hi guys, I'm embarrassed to have to ask this question, and perhaps by being on the forum I'll spare Jachym time that he can better spend getting new and other users up on his template.

I did the download of the new 17.0 software, but had not updated 16 with the bug fix from a few months ago. He pointed me to the right download, and I have that and 17.0 upgrade transferred to my web server in the Updates subdirectory (or folder) on my web server.

In the instructions, Jachym says to log into your web page as the administrator, and indeed if I go to the update directory to run the bug fix, and try to run the .php, I get an access error. I am hosted by GoDaddy, and running fine for months if not a year or more.

I can't find anything with google except for a couple places that aren't GoDaddy, nor seem to be the kind of web software that I'm using under their site hosting software.

This is really irritating but also humbling since if I use FileZilla, I can log in and move an delete files (having provided my user name and password. But I can't seem to run anything while logged in with Filezilla (which I didn't think I could since Filezilla only transfers and maintains the file structure). I am baffled on how to be able to 'log in' to run these scripts so I can update.

Can anyone hold my hand for this process? Dale
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[dmgould]

Greetings: The version 16 bug fix you must do using FileZilla and just transfer the new files into their corresponding directories overwriting the old files. It won't auto update from the update directory.

The administrator password you use to do the update 16->17 is your Meteotemplate administrator password, the one you use clicking the lock in the lower right corner of the main page. It has nothing to do with FileZilla. I hope this is helping you. The post is bit fragmented. Also, if you can't get logged into Meteotemplate to do the auto update to version 17, you still can manually update one file at a time using FileZilla. That is how it was done before the auto update was available. But, you still need to log into Meteotemplate to save the main setup after the update to get it all started. No matter what at some point you need your Meteotemplate admin password.

[DaleReid]

Thanks for the hlep.
I did move everything for the 16 bug fix over using FileZilla, except that there is a file in the root of that unzipped bug fix package called "updateTemplate.php" and I haven't found a similar file in the original installation (pre bug fix) where that should go.

Nonetheless, after moving those files over, I did go to my web page, opened Meteo and then signed in as administrator.

From there I am lost, I'm not sure where, once signed in as administrator, do I go to initial the update? That was the part that I was no clear on.

I could try to move them all over individually using FileZilla, but that is both cumbersome and prone to error, with Jachym's nice improvement making updating easier than the old way.

Can you tell me where in the menus I need to go to start the update once I have logged in as admin?

I feel a bit like the fellows in the attached picture:

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Dale

[Jachym]

Hi Dale,
have you seen the post in the blog about the new version? That gives the url and step by step guide.

But anyway, the updateTemplate is the file that processes the updated. You need to copy the update folder (in this case update_17.0) to the "update" folder using FTP, then log in as admin on your homepage and then open in a browser the updateTemplate.php, which should be something like

.......update/updateTemplate.php