Although AbanteCart is a really good e-commerce software, from my opinion it's weakness is the upgrade system.
Sometimes I can just click through the upgrade button and it upgrades in a few seconds. "Please click following link this link to start the upgrade." Then for newer upgrades, the system doesn't work as the popup just reappears that had the original upgrade information.
Sadly, the only manual upgrade information is not complete and assumes that the upgrader has done a manual upgrade before and skips details such as "... then a miracle occurs and it all works." The manual installation appears to be just copying the new files over the old, but keeping the original config file and then running a command. How to run the command remains a mystery. Any ideas?
I also installed a 1.2.x (current version) on my Bluehost server and after the install, restored the manual backup of everything (or so I thought) from the files/folders. Although it "worked" the images weren't transferred nor the templates and other details. It became so confusing that I gave up for lack of time.
Does anyone have a long version of how to upgrade AbanteCart?
As I wrote above, it would be nice to make a manual backup, install the current version, restore to it and the new site is identical to the old. It would be nice.