Comments on: Joomla! 1.5.10 and updating your Joomla! instance

By: ixiel

ixiel — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:41:00 +0000

Just want to say thank you for this excellent plugin.

I managed by passed the MD5 checksum error by using the Cache method. Uploaded the joomla tar.gz upgrade file via the link given to my /tmp folder and the extraction went well and my joomla now upgraded from 1.5.11 to 1.5.24.

1.5.11 got issues with my dedicated hosting using php 5.3.8 and with 1.5.24 there is no more probs.

Thank you very much.

By: pasamio

pasamio — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:02:37 +0000

Sounds like it is hitting a timeout error for some reason, I’d suggest that you will have to manually upgrade if this continually happens.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:24:00 +0000

Hi, i have just come across your excellent plugin but am having a bit of a problem, the site i manage is hosted on 1and1 and is running on php5 and joomla 1.5.12, i have successfully installed the update component, changed from fopen to curl as it was throwing a wobbly! But now i have the problem, the plugin is successfully loading the update file 1.5.12 to 1.5.23 update but on clicking to step 3 i am getting a Error 500 – Internal server error. any ideas?
very new to Joomla and have only just discovered how to update php in the 1and1 control panel!
cheers for any help you can offer a newbie!
Ian .

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:56:56 +0000

It seems that the update address http://jsitepoint.com/update/packages/joomla/update.xml
takes you to a blank webpage with just the following text: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/pasamioprojects/frs/
Is this an error? shouldn’t it point to the update.xml file?
This is really frustrating trying to get this to work

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:24:46 +0000

Hi I am having the following error when I click on download the update file
Download Failed: Remote Server connection failed: fopen(http://jsitepoint.com/update/packages/joomla/update.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found; Using Proxy: No(42)
It seems that I have to put “allow_url_fopen = On ;” in the php.ini file but I am not sure where to put the php.ini file in order for it to work. I have searched everywhere for an answer but no joy, hope anyone can help.

By: Hazel

Hazel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:29:34 +0000

I already updated my websites. Thank you very much.

By: pasamio

pasamio — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:44:59 +0000

There is always a delay between when a release is done and before I update my systems. I do some quick tests with everything prior to putting it public which sometimes has to be fit into my work arrangements. Should be all good now

By: Hazel

Hazel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:42 +0000

hello. i am updating my joomla from version 1.5.18 to 1.5.19 but the update manager says “no updates were found”. is there any problem with my site or the component needs an update too?

By: Chez

Chez — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:54:35 +0000

Hi vanityasart, I came across the same problem,

Download Failed: Remote Server connection failed: fopen(http://jsitepoint.com/update/packages/joomla/update.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found; Using Proxy: No(42)

I contacted my server provider after successfully upgrading another site running the same template etc on another server with them. I asked if they could pinpoint the differences – they did. I asked what the problem was and they said,

“I have enabled allow_include_url for your account”

Whilst this doesn’t mean very much to myself I hope you can solve your problem from it.

Kind regards

By: U'r Computer Ade

U'r Computer Ade — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:50:35 +0000

vanityasart, Im having the same problem and cannot find an answer to it. Wish someone would shed some light on the subject

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:57:01 +0000

My client is using GoDaddy. I have never had so many troubles with their hosting process with any other hosting provider as it is so different. However, their interface is lovely in presentation. My trouble is that PHP5 is installed, yet I still get the same error as vanitysart and all the others. Is there some type of script I must install? If so, how would I do that using the hosting manager for GoDaddy?

By: vanityasart

vanityasart — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:29:43 +0000

I’ve seen a few people having this same problem. I’ve updated several sites using this tool (worked wonderfully) until this site. This is my error message.

It would be nice if we could get a solutions rather than a lot of “I don’t know why it’s doing that.”

By: pasamio

pasamio — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:53:35 +0000

You can enable error reporting in the Site -> Global Configuration -> Server -> Error Reporting and then set it to maximum. Strange that it dies there, it shouldn’t be doing anything special unless there is a strange permission error somewhere.

It doesn’t touch tables except for jos_components and jos_modules. On the file system it touches /libraries/joomla/installer/adapters to add the package.php and library.php files, the relevant component directories and a module. The names should match the contents of the package if you extract out the top level component and then the underlying package.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:37:50 +0000

Hi,

I encountered the same error as someone else which was after I click install via the Joomla admin panel I get a white screen with the following 2 lines;

Installing /hsphere/local/home/mygruber/robot-tutorials.com/administrator/components/com_advancedtools/packages/com_jpackageman.tgz
Installing /hsphere/local/home/mygruber/robot-tutorials.com/administrator/components/com_advancedtools/packages/pkg_advtools.tgz

However because I do not know how to activate error trapping on my server I will need to uninstall.

To ensure I have a clean uninstall could you please advise all the areas that are modified during the install please (files, folders, DB tables etc) as the uninstall process advises me there are some areas it cannot undo.

Regards
Michael

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:33:26 +0000

By the way, I should have added that I have updated my site using the FTP method, but I would still like to figure out how to get Update Manager configured correctly. Thanks

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:00:15 +0000

Hi, I’m a newbie to Joomla!, and all of this tech stuff, so this seemed perfect for me, but I’m unable to get it to work.

I’ve tried both the fopen and curl options in parameters (not that I understand what they are) and get to different steps with each.

With fopen selected I get this error at Step 1: Download Failed: Remote Server connection failed: fopen(http://jsitepoint.com/update/packages/joomla/update.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found; Using Proxy: No(42)

With curl selected, I see the files to select, but I also get this message: Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /mnt/w0602/d21/s29/b02fc053/www/oldyalepenworks.ca/administrator/components/com_jupdateman/libraries/pasamio/downloader/adapters/curl.php on line 46

If I try to select the patch package, in addition to the message above I also get this: Error: MD5 checksum does not match! Delete and redownload file.

I will keep browsing forums to see what else I can come up with, but any suggestions that you might have would be appreciated. Thanks

By: fmarvel

fmarvel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:46:20 +0000

See http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=317031&p=1894951#p1894951

By: pasamio

pasamio — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:33:40 +0000

First, if you’re running PHP5, this isn’t supported. Second, if you’re on PHP5 go into params and switch over to curl and see if this works better.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:08:42 +0000

Hi,

I have tried joomla! update manager and when trying to “download the updating file” I get the message:

Download failed: Remote Server connection failed:fopen(http://jsitepoint.com/update/packages/joomla/update.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found; Using Proxy: No(42).

I don’t know if it is also related to it, but when I try to install the update package from 1.5.10 to 1.5.14 it tells that “XML setup file could not be found”.

Is my 1.5.10 joomla corrupt or something? I cannot update it. Does anybody know how to solve it.

I am new to joomla and any help would be like gold.

Marcel

By: hkeyzer

hkeyzer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:59:19 +0000

Agree don’t wate time making it php4 compatiable. I’d rather the site owner upgraded their php.

Otherwise working fine on all sites.
Thanks