Hi all, so i’m trying to upgrade my out of date discourse installation from 1.6.0 to the latest. I’ve created a dev server local, ensured it was running, then restored the 1.6.0 backup onto it. After the restore is complete my site is all a bit screwy, All the headers in the admin area start with “en.admin.” The console is full of errors as well. Can’t seem to fix it and i’m not quite sure whats wrong. [Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 17.03.50] [Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 17.05.17] [Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 17.05.31]

I would restore to a production setup. Development is rather tricky to get set up correctly, and you’re not going to run your site on development. Do you have any custom themes? It’s a good bet that they are broken.

ill try a new digital ocean droplet and see if that makes any difference yes theres custom headers etc. in there. perhaps i should disable all those before backup?

Disabling them before backup is a good idea.

So i was able to restore succesfully to a new digitalocean droplet - didn’t need to ditch the custom themes in the end. I’ve got most everything running, except for a bug i’m seeing when i try to edit an existing category I get a Server Error while trying to load /c/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/find_by_slug.json Error code 500 error I also cannot create new categories - 500 error and i cannot re-order categories..

Try setting slug generation method to encoded in site settings.

no, tried setting to none as well still get 500 errors. I get them when editing existing topics too - slightly differently however, in that the top does get edited, but i still get a 500 error message

on 1.6.0 the request sent to edit a category is show.json?1674060788449 http://discourse.url.com/c/20/show.json?_=1674060788449 on 3.1 it is using find_by_slug.json https://discourse.url.com/c/category_name/find_by_slug.json

Go to /logs and share the message and backtrace of those errors here.

Error message NoMethodError (undefined method `default_slow_mode_seconds' for #<Category id: 20, name: "Music Tech Discussion", color: "ee6b65", topic_id: 36276, topic_count: 5648, created_at: "2016-02-26 12:31:28. INFO Message (25 copies reported) NoMethodError (undefined method `default_slow_mode_seconds' for #<Category id: 20, name: "Music Tech Discussion", color: "ee6b65", topic_id: 36276, topic_count: 5648, created_at: "2016-02-26 12:31:28.763958000 +0000", updated_at: "2023-01-18 15:06:21.512625000 +0000", user_id: 12, topics_year: 7, topics_month: 0, topics_week: 0, slug: "music-tech-discussion", description: nil, text_color: "FFFFFF", read_restricted: false, auto_close_hours: nil, post_count: 56980, latest_post_id: 228821, latest_topic_id: 36207, position: 1, parent_category_id: nil, posts_year: 24, posts_month: 0, posts_week: 0, email_in: nil, email_in_allow_strangers: false, topics_day: 0, posts_day: 0, allow_badges: true, name_lower: "music tech discussion", auto_close_based_on_last_post: false, topic_template: "", contains_messages: nil, sort_order: nil, sort_ascending: nil, uploaded_logo_id: nil, uploaded_background_id: nil, topic_featured_link_allowed: true, all_topics_wiki: false, show_subcategory_list: false, num_featured_topics: 1, default_view: nil, subcategory_list_style: "rows_with_featured_topics", default_top_period: "all", mailinglist_mirror: false, minimum_required_tags: 0, navigate_to_first_post_after_read: false, search_priority: 0, allow_global_tags: false, reviewable_by_group_id: nil, read_only_banner: nil, default_list_filter: "all", allow_unlimited_owner_edits_on_first_post: false> Did you mean? default_scopes) (eval):53:in `_fast_attributes' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:523:in `serialize_data' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:532:in `render_serialized' app/controllers/categories_controller.rb:284:in `find_by_slug' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:414:in `block in with_resolved_locale' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:414:in `with_resolved_locale' lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:74:in `call' lib/content_security_policy/middleware.rb:12:in `call' lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:366:in `call' config/initializers/100-quiet_logge... 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[image] bobpies: default_slow_mode_seconds Looks like it’s missing a migration? Can you try a rebuild?

./launcher rebuild app? Rebuilding now, will update you shortly

Upgrading from 1.6.0 to 3

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bobpies January 18, 2023, 5:36pm 13

Looks like that fixed it!

thank you so much

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