Upgrading from 1.6.0 to 3

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so i’m trying to upgrade my out of date discourse installation from 1.6.0 to the latest.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.



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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.

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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?

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Disabling them before backup is a good idea.

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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…

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Try setting slug generation method to encoded in site settings.

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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

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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

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

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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>
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(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...

Backtrace

activemodel (7.0.4) lib/active_model/attribute_methods.rb:458:in `method_missing'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:99:in `block in attribute'
(eval):53:in `_fast_attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:468:in `rescue in attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:455:in `attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:480:in `_serializable_hash'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:359:in `serializable_hash'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:343:in `as_json'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:523:in `serialize_data'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:532:in `render_serialized'

Env

HTTP HOSTS: forumstest.xxx.com

Backtrace

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active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:99:in `block in attribute'
(eval):53:in `_fast_attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:468:in `rescue in attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:455:in `attributes'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:480:in `_serializable_hash'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:359:in `serializable_hash'
active_model_serializers (0.8.4) lib/active_model/serializer.rb:343:in `as_json'
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'
actionpack (7.0.4) lib/action_controller/metal/basic_implicit_render.rb:6:in `send_action'
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Looks like it’s missing a migration? Can you try a rebuild?

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./launcher rebuild app?

Rebuilding now, will update you shortly

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Looks like that fixed it!

thank you so much

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