Title: Upgrading problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Upgrading problems

 *  [murphsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murphsy/)
 * (@murphsy)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I am running multiple websites using WordPress. Two of these were/are still running
   on WordPress **2.6.3**, but since other websites of mine are running 2.7.x and
   I’ve tasted the sweetness of these newer WordPress installs I want to upgrade.
 * I tried upgrading website #1 using the upgrade guide on this website, luckily
   also following the backup step quite precisely. I ended up breaking the website.
   The upgrade process failed miserably – and I tried many times.
 * My other website running the old 2.6.3 version is rather important to me. I therefore
   do not wish to break it. I do not wish to risk to break it.
 * I was wondering if there is another way of getting the newest version online?
   I was thinking about removing the old install completely, excluding database,
   and uploading the new version.
 * Would this work? How would I go about getting my old articles up and running?
   I rank quite highly with a number of them in Google. Do I risk my rankings?
 * In short: _The upgrade process has failed me numerous times, for reasons unknown.
   With this website **I can’t risk losing/breaking it**. How do I go about getting
   the newer version without risk?_
 * ps: the other website was never fixed, reuploading the backups still gave a broken
   website. It’s scary.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-2/#post-1027457)
 * what exactly happened in the upgrade?
    what broke? let’s see if we can figure
   something out.
 *  Thread Starter [murphsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murphsy/)
 * (@murphsy)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-2/#post-1027475)
 * Unfortunately at this moment my internet connection is terrible bad so I don’t
   dare to try and start the proces right now. I loose my connection constantly.
   I shall be making backups of db and site tomorrow and than report back in here
   to try and make an upgrade happen.
 * Last time the upgrade went ‘fine’ but only the homepage was accessible, everything
   else (including trying to login or admin dashboard) simply gave errors.
 * But lets postphone this until tomorrow, and I shall just take the leap and try
   and update my main site.

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 * Last reply from: [murphsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murphsy/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-2/#post-1027475)
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