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OK, I installed Mambo on my account prior to Fantastico, and I'm concerned about the security vulnerabililties (old and new ). I'm at rev. 4.5.1, ...

  1. 06-29-2006, 06:30 PM #1
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    Question Upgrading Mambo

    OK, I installed Mambo on my account prior to Fantastico, and I'm concerned about the security vulnerabililties (old and new). I'm at rev. 4.5.1, and Mambo is at 4.6RC1.

    Has anyone DONE this upgrade? How do I do it? I'm technical and knowledgeable, but not about upgrading an app like Mambo.

    Please give me a hand if you can.
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  2. 06-29-2006, 08:02 PM #2
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    Supposedly, all you have to do is add a couple of lines of code to patch Mambo for the latest vulns. I find this a little hard to swallow, but that's what they said, over on the Mambo site.

    Anyway, to answer your question directly, I don't run Mambo, so no I haven't done the upgrade -- but, I do have Joomla! installed on my site, and their security fix required (practically) a total rewrite, so...

    Personally, if you aren't heavily invested in Mambo, I would switch to Joomla! but that's just me.
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  3. 06-29-2006, 08:50 PM #3
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    Joomla looks .. um .. familiar? Any conversion scripts? Why is it better than Mambo in your experience?

    And according to the Joomla website, they've already got a major security vulnerability, so I'm still facing the upgrade issue.
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  4. 06-29-2006, 08:54 PM #4
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    I'll 2nd that... Joomla seems to be gathering more momentum, too. I am having some problems that recently cropped up, but I think it has to do w/ switching PHP around. Some of the code is breaking due to extra spaces in a few lines.

    At any rate, I've upgraded/patched both Mambo and Joomla several times, and it really is very easy. Do your backups religiously, and just replace the files. If you're brave, you can simply untar over your current installation and let the magic of absolute folders do the work for you. If it gets hosed, you are only one restoration away from going back to zero, so you've really only lost a handful of minutes before trying the manual patches.
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    Joomla is a split of Mambo. Much of the original team went to the new development because Mambo was heading down the path of corporate oversight. Joomla supports a lot of Mambo's components, but the development philosophy will begin to diverge - Joomla aims to make things much easier for independent developers to work on a unified structure.

    Besides, Joomla represents a core overhaul - mostly new code, takes advantage of some newer library additions, and is built by people who are more enthusiastic (at this point). I think it's more aggressively developed, but that's just a hunch.
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    Heh! Guess that about covers it...

    Does someone make a conversion script?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MoviesMatter
    And according to the Joomla website, they've already got a major security vulnerability, so I'm still facing the upgrade issue.
    Yes n' no...

    http://jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14334
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  8. 06-30-2006, 07:48 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vin DSL
    Personally, if you aren't heavily invested in Mambo, I would switch to Joomla! but that's just me.
    Agreed...I had 7-8 Mambo sites converted to Joomla without any problems...Joomla is, in my opinion, much better for the reasons mentioned above (among others).

    It shouldn't take more than 5-10min to convert mambo to Joomla...
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