Comments on: Joomla! 1.5.14 released, easy updates with JUpdateMan

By: TB-BW.com admin

TB-BW.com admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:50:43 +0000

For users of the german web hosting company Strato:

Strato suggests that you use the following path for your temporary directory:
http://www.strato-faq.de/10

This is an alias path, not the real path.
The real path changes every now and then when strato cleans up or reorganizes their servers.

However joomla update manager doesn’t work with the alias path, you need to enter the real path.
The real path is displayed in the joomla update manager in the warning message.

Example Error Warning Message:
Warning: Potentially invalid temporary path.
Configured path: /home/strato/www/yourwebsitepath
Suggested path: /mnt/weba/41/81/52214781/htdocs/yourwebsitepath

By: Appo

Appo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:20:48 +0000

Hi There, I’m very new to Joomla and it was great to find this tool to upgrade between versions. I’m struggling to get the file to extract.

I have installed the latest version of the update manager, and this installed fine. When I run update manager, it detects that I am running Joomla 1.5.9 (the version installed via a script by our hosting company). The update manager detects the patch required to get to 1.5.18. I click to continue and the patch then gets downloaded to the tmp folder. On Step 3, I get an error stating that it “failed to extract archive” – this error appeared using the 1.5 PEAR Archive_Tar. If I use 1.5 default extractor, I get a blank screen but a number of tmp files appearing in the tmp folder?

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers!

By: pasamio

pasamio — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:58:00 +0000

You changed the params in the component param screen (accessible on the top right corner of the screen) or in the XML file? Strange that you have curl but not the HTTP wrapper for fopen, what version of PHP are you running?

By: webjocky

webjocky — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:09:25 +0000

well the code tag didn’t work – but it shows that fopen = 0 and curl = 1

By: webjocky

webjocky — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:08:39 +0000

I’ve changed the parameters to use cURL & even verified that the config.xml:

[code]
fopen
curl
[/code]

My phpinfo states: “cURL support enabled”
However, I still get the following error:
[code]
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)[/code]

any suggestions?

By: Aly

Aly — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:50:04 +0000

Had the same error issue – “Local output opening failed” so I tried cache on, as suggested above. Uploaded patch package to my /tmp directory and it still wouldn’t untar. I then changed to 1.5 default extractor and it worked like a charm

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:13:46 +0000

Bart,
How did you
“expanded the Mb reserved for this account.”

to fix the MD5 checksum error?

Thanks

Great extension

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:32:33 +0000

Great job!
The only issue I’m having on many sites is in backend: buttons and features appear as {Save} and so on. I tried to replace some files (TinyMCE) from a clean install but no improvement.

By: Sakanet

Sakanet — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:31:43 +0000

Hi Pasamio,
It sounds like this is a great tool to update your Joomla Website but unfortunately, I am getting this error message when I click on either options,

Full Package (4.59MB)
Patch Package (1.58MB)

Error: “Error: MD5 checksum does not match! Delete and redownload file.”

I appreciate if you can help!

Thanks,

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:57:17 +0000

in case this is helpful for anyone, 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: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:24:07 +0000

I’m having the same issue – tried using cache, w/ 1.5 default extractor and fopen, but on step 3 it goes nowhere and the screen is just blank.

By: Latiful

Latiful — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:20:22 +0000

I was updating from 1.5.10 to 1.5.15. As normal procedure failed, I tried using cached method and followed the same procedure as “San” described on Nov 13, 2009. The step 3 could not be completed and the window became blank and the browser appeared to be stopped. The problem appeared to be mysterious. Both the site and the admin are working, showing version 1.5.10.

By: Bart

Bart — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:01:02 +0000

The problem is solved. I have expanded the Mb reserved for this account.

Bart

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:36:12 +0000

Hi,

Same MD5 message. I want to update from 1.5.6 to 1.5.15. No proxy.

Thank you for the great extention, I used it successfully on three other sites.

Bart

By: San

San — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:02 +0000

Yes! it worked for me..after a bit struggle.
In parameters, i selected “Joomla1.5 default extractor” and seleted cache to “Yes”. Download method-”fopen”.
When i checked my tmp directory (permission should be 777) i found jupgrader.xml as size 0 bytes.ie.nothing written automatically. so i copied the contents from above given link to jupgrader.xml and created a new file with unicode encoding. After saving, the jupgrader.xml was uploaded to tmp folder.
Now i went to Update manager menu in joomla and proceeded to step 2. I have downloaded a zip format upgrade package from 1.5.14to 15 from joomla. but later on i understood that the format used by this should be tar.gz. so i followed the link in step2 to download latest joomla patch and uploaded it to tmp folder. just reload the page and confirm the package..You are ALSO done!

By: Asbjørn

Asbjørn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:38:12 +0000

Hi,
I am updating from 1.5.10 to 1.5.14 and experience the same problem as Chris above. I checked the uploaded files:
- the xml file is ok
- but the patch size is “0″.
Does it help?
Thanks.
Regards
Asbjørn

By: pasamio

pasamio — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:54:02 +0000

Good to see that you got it sorted.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:20:18 +0000

Hi there,

I have just checked on another website and it worked.
I was first checking to download the updates from the same server but different folder (main website: publichtml/beta/ —– udpates located on: publichtml/updates). ftp root must have been getting confused.

sorry for putting an nonsense comment my bad.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:59:44 +0000

Hi there,

First of all, i would like to thanks Jupdateman for that component, it is great facilitate my life regarding updates.
Testing on my localhost, it works great downloading my xml and my .zip files but once online i have the problem about that fopen failed: Remote Server connection failed: and failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found; Using Proxy: No(42).
I have my xml stored on my server.
Do i need to enter the proxy details?? or must i change my ftp layer details.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Jerome

By: pasamio

pasamio — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:23:14 +0000

Hi brandonjp,

Interesting, I’ll have to do some tests and work out how I can recode it to get it to work properly. It uses PHP’s stream API so I might need to encode something some where differently to get it to work properly.

Everything lives out of the configured Joomla! temporary directory. So for a previous release you will need to flick it into cached mode under params, grab a copy of jupgrader.xml for that release (it is automatically generated on my side by looking for the latest release and spitting out an XML file) and the file you want to use. You can grab the current one, gut it of the pointless information to create a file for the release you’re interested in, I hope the format is simple enough if you’re comfortable playing with XML. If you need a hand just post and I’ll have a look through.