Comments on: Update Manager 1.5.1 Final Released!

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:56:04 +0000

Wow! Thanks for this program. I’ve been having issues updating and this saved me so much time. I really can’t thank you enough. I’ve tried jupgrade and it just wouldn’t load no matter what I tried, then I found you.
THANKS

By: Garth Gerstein

Garth Gerstein — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:31:33 +0000

I am getting the same problem as Paul in the previous post
Paul January 4th, 2010 3:35 am

I get a Failed to extract archive! error. I don’t understand Paul’s solution. Curl is not enabled and I am just using a local wamp installation to test the extension. The error gives me no information on where the archive is written so I don’t understand where to look for permissions. This just a windows box. The tmp directory and all subfolders have full permissions. Is it because I am on a windows box and it doesn’t know how to extract a .tar file maybe?

Thank you.

By: JB McKay

JB McKay — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:12:10 +0000

Thanks for this Updater !!!
couldnt get it to work until i read thru this thread-
then i went back in,, and where the Installer said “suggested path” when i began,, i copied and pasted that path into Global Config where /tmp had been,, this DID the trick, and Install-Upgrade was Successful !!! However,,, i still cannot EDIT any of my Articles,, its been a year since i made this site,,(had injuries from an accident),, and now that I’m able to try to make some changes,, I Can’t Edit,, help ?? hahaha,, thanks,, Ima Rookie,, JB

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:40:35 +0000

Just another vote for turning off FTP in the Global Config panel…that did the trick for me!

By: Cape Town SEO

Cape Town SEO — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:20:26 +0000

Hey,
I have had a lot of trouble with using this plugin on a clients website, but have finally figured out what the issue was. Maybe this will help someone else…..I was getting an error with both the fopen method and the curl method. All permissions etc seemed to be fine, but I could not get past the error.
I discovered that the hosting account for the website does not allow outgoing connections from the website unless they are approved. It does however generate a list of outgoing connection attempts, and from that list I was able to enable the IP of joomlacode.org (206.123.111.164). After adding that IP, I tried again, and it still did not work 100%, but it got one step further than before. It now allowed me to choose the update patch or the full package, but then would produce an error again when I chose the update package.
I then added a similar IP from my list (206.123.111.167) which I think also goes to joomlacode.org, and also one which goes to awaken.pasamio.com (69.60.121.193).
After doing this, I was able to complete all steps and upgrade the site successfully.
Hope this info helps anyone in a similar situation.

By: Lokaiwen

Lokaiwen — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:38:12 +0000

Thank you. You made upgrading kinda fun

By: pasamio

pasamio — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:50:10 +0000

So that problem is file permissions and I'm not entirely sure how you can fix that because it varies from server to server. If you don't have FTP mode enabled then this will likely fix the problem for you however if you have installed extensions in this mixed mode you're probably going to find that you'll want FTP mode to update the site and then disable it to return it to normal operation. Check with your hosting provider for more details or perhaps even switch providers to one where this won't be an issue (my personal recommendation is Rochen).

By: JenJ

JenJ — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:04:17 +0000

Hi -

I’ve been slowly resolving errors encountered with this, but finally hit a roadblock I don’t understand and can’t get past.
When running the updater, on the final screen, I get the error:

* Unable to write entry

Warning: file_put_contents(/home1/___site____/index2.php) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home1/___site____/libraries/joomla/filesystem/file.php on line 298

Failed to extract archive!

I’ve changed my configuration to all the various suggestions listed above, but each time I get a ‘failed to extract’ error. What’s the next step? Thanks!

Jen

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:22:09 +0000

I use update manager on about 20 sites. I never had a problem on any except with those hosted by a particular company. I get the chmod error and /tmp/jupdater.xml error and cannot even get passed step 1. I have checked for differences between the php.ini’s and there is no difference they are using identical setups but somehow one gives errors and the other doesn’t.

By: Bhupesh

Bhupesh — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:55:17 +0000

I was getting the same errors as “flasp” mentioned above. I uninstalled the update manager and reinstalled. I got as far as Step 3 – then I get an Error 500 – Internal server error message: An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Shane Longtin

Shane Longtin — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:15:47 +0000

I was having the same issue as EJSTark. After reading a few of the other comments related to FTP, I turned FTP off in Global Config, and the updater worked like a charm in cURL mode (didn’t try fopen). After the update, I just turned FTP back on.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:01:14 +0000

I simply cannot get this to work with FTP enabled in the global configuration!

The tmp directory is correctly configured.

Simply nothing is written to the tmp directory – not jupgrader.xml, or the patch file – though the script does not return any errors and must assume they are downloading successfully.

Surely if FTP is enabled the script shouldn’t be writing directly to the tmp directory? The point of the FTP mode is to write files as the user and not the Apache process.

I just don’t see how this script can ever work with FTP enabled. Even if the jupgrader.xml was actually written to the tmp directory (I’ve emulated this) then it fails on ftpChmod’ing it because the file is owned by “nobody” (the Apache process” and not the FTP user and obviously doesn’t have permissions to the file!

By: flasp

flasp — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:23:50 +0000

Im having a lot of troubles with this.
After installing the updater I got a message sying that jupgrader was missing in the tmp-folder. Looking through the component-folder com_jupdateman I realized it was totally empty. I do not know how I could have a menu-item saying updatemanager.
I then extracted the files in the tar-file and uploaded them through ftp to the folder and uploaded the upgrade.xml-file that I found mentioned somewhere in this blog to my tmp-folder.
Now I get this message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function name() on a non-object in /hsphere/local/…EDITED…/cms/administrator/components/com_jupdateman/step1.php on line 54

Why am I having so many trouble with this….

By: pasamio

pasamio — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:25:49 +0000

A white screen sounds like you’re on PHP4, check that you’re on PHP5 and also if that doesn’t work bump up your error reporting (Global Config, Server tab IIRC) and see what message you get from there

By: J

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:32:05 +0000

Everytime I install the updater…it creates the folder, and lists it under components, but when I try to use it I get a white screen. Using my FTP the folder created during installation is empty. I have tried it about 20 times.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:14:33 +0000

Came to this blog looking for a solution to the “Update file does not exist: /tmp/jupgrader.xml
Parsing XML Document Failed!”

My temp path was correct [as was a few others here]. So I tried turning off the “FTP Settings” in Global Config and the install worked.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:42:53 +0000

This is a really great script! I didn’t think there was a script like this. Such a smart and simple extension, I’ll install it with every joomla site I develop in the future. cheers /E

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:35:46 +0000

in case this is helpful for anyone, I posted this on another thread too: I finally got this to work by doing the following:
1) This problem was on a LAMP with a PLESK control panel. In Joomla the path to the Temp-folder in the Global Config I defined as such:
/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/tmp
2) In /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf I defined the following

php_admin_flag engine on
php_admin_value open_basedir none

Now if you go into your Joomla admin under PHP Settings you should see: Open basedir: None

I successfully used 1.5 extractor; fopen; Cached Update: No. If you have curl I see no reason this won’t work also.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:23:28 +0000

Same problem with these errors. I’ve been trying for hours…

By: Dave Dorey

Dave Dorey — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:30 +0000

I’m having the same issue. I downloaded and manually installed the jupgrader.xml file from the link above which resolved the Update file does not exist: but am getting MD5 checksum errors now.