title: How to upgrade Magento 1.6 to magento 1.9
body: <p>I am having my current website running on Magento 1.6. I am looking to upgrade it to 1.9 but don't know how to start. I went through the below articles but was not able to move ahead. </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-development/upgrade/how-to-upgrade-magento/" rel="nofollow">http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-development/upgrade/how-to-upgrade-magento/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.crucialwebhost.com/kb/installing-magento-via-ssh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crucialwebhost.com/kb/installing-magento-via-ssh/</a></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone please help me from ground level. I need to know it from scratch. I wanted to replace the below code but was not able to locate the file in my database. I am currently using filezilla to access my server file. My database is maintained by a different company called nexcess.</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/index.php/getmagento/1.9.1.0/magento-1.9.1.0.tar.gz
  wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.9.0.0/magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0.tar.gz
  tar xvf magento-1.9.1.0.tar.gz
  tar xvf magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0.tar.gz
  mv magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0/media/* magento/media/
  mv magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.9.0.0.sql magento/data.sql
  mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
  mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME &lt; data.sql
  rm -rf *.sample magento/ magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0/
  rm -rf magento-1.9.1.0.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0.tar.gz data.sql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Please help me how to go through with it</strong></p>