XOOPS Installation Guide
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Preamble
  • Chapter 2: Introduction
  • Chapter 3: Server Configuration Check
  • Chapter 4: Take the Right Path!
  • Chapter 5: Database Connections
  • Chapter 6: Final System Configuration
  • Chapter 7: Administration Settings
  • Chapter 8: Ready to go!
  • Chapter 9: Upgrade Existing XOOPS Installation
  • Upgrading from XOOPS 2.4.5 (easy way)
  • Upgrading from XOOPS 2.0. above 2.0.14 and 2.2.
  • Upgrading from any XOOPS (2.0.7 to 2.0.13.2)
  • Upgrading a non UTF-8 site
  • Upgrading XoopsEditor package
  • Appendix 1: Working with the new Admin GUI (our Dashboard)
  • Appendix 2: Uploading XOOPS via FTP
  • Appendix 3: Translating XOOPS to Local Language
  • Appendix 4: Useful Tools
  • Appendix 5: Increase security of your XOOPS installation
  • About XOOPS CMS
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Upgrading a non UTF-8 site

UTF-8 encoding has been introduced into XOOPS 2.3 as default charset. However, there might be some problems with converting existing websites from non UTF-8 charset to UTF-8.

Before there is a good enough solution for this conversion, following settings are recommended when you upgrade an existing website if you are not an experienced user:

  • Select "Do not change" option in "Database character set and collation" step during upgrade process

  • Modify /languages/yourlanguage/global.php to use your previous _CHARSET value, if it has been changed to UTF-8 in your new global.php file as define('_CHARSET', 'UTF-8');

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