Xenforo Xenforo 2.1 have you see previews !

In that case yes - If you want to do manual XF 2.1 upgrade, you would use below commands to upload the updated XF zip file, unzip it, change file/directory permissions to nginx user/group for upload directory contents, copy the uploads directory contents to XF web root or where you installed XF php files. Then run the cmd.php xf:upgrade via SSH command line. The last 2 lines to remove zips, you can do or leave as is.

Code (Text):

cd /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips
unzip xenforo_xxx.zip
chown -R nginx:nginx upload
cd upload
\cp -Rpf * /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public
php /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public/cmd.php xf:upgrade
cd /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips
rm -f /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips/*

altered last line to specifically use directory and not rm -rf * as it's dangerous if you ran that command in wrong directory !

 

key is the first change directory cd command to play your commands in right directory and 2nd command unzip would only unzip the zip file if it exists and 3rd/4th command only apply if upload directory exists

now 5th command would potentially be problematic if in wrong directory if you missed first cd command.

you could also do pwd command after cd which will print the current working directory to verify you did indeed change to appropriate directory

Code (Text):

cd /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips
pwd
unzip xenforo_xxx.zip
chown -R nginx:nginx upload
cd upload
\cp -Rpf * /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public
php /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public/cmd.php xf:upgrade
cd /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips
rm -f /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/zips/*