First of all in step 3 we were getting a message that it couldn’t write to certain files. We solved this by setting the permissions to 777 for those files.

Now in step 3 we get the error mentioned about – unable to create destination.

The solutions that worked for other people either don’t work for us, or we don’t understand what they are saying.

Please help – we thought this was going to be the easy way to update from 1.5.15 to 1.5.25

Just like Oliu Mayer above, I’m getting the blank white page during step 3 when trying to use the Update Manager to update from J! 1.5.23 to 1.5.25.

Any thoughts as to why this is happening?

The site I’m attempting to update is on a shared Network Solutions server. CURL is enabled. memory_limit = 64M, upload_max_filesize = 25M

Thanks,
Azurelink

http://www.fixilink.com/2104/

and it’s just a blank page!. I am going from 1.5.12 to 1.5.23

FTP layer in global config is on.
open basedir in PHP settings (Joomla admin backend) is /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite/httpdocs:/tmp

path to temp folder in global config is /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite

There is 700meg available diskspace.

Error received is at step 2, after clicking on patch file. “Error: MD5 checksum does not match! Delete and redownload file.” is received on screen.

If I download the update .gz file from joomla, then upload that file to httpdocs/tmp and select cache method, the MD error is not received, but there is a blank screen on the step3 page (I can tell it is step3 by the URL) but the upgrade doesn’t work. Version is still the same as original.

Ideas?

When I try to install your extension through the extension manager I keep getting:

JFile::read: Unable to open file: ‘C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite\tmp/gzip4d9d77ebe7726′
Unable to read archive

AND

Warning: fopen(C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite\tmp/gzip4d9d77ebe7726) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/myusername/public_html/libraries/joomla/filesystem/file.php on line 246

unable to find install packages.

Thanks for any help,

Mike

Forum registration is offline until I can solve the spam problem, Google Account login should be working but might not register new users as a side effect of disabling registration in general (can’t remember how I coded that functionality). Once I work out the spam problem I’ll be back online.

I also get:
Error: MD5 checksum does not match! Delete and redownload file.

BUT I do not even have any file in my tmp directory to delete. My tmp directory in Joomla is /home/xxxx/public_html/tmp

I have searched all threads on this subject and nothing fixes it.

P.S. Your Forum Regsitration does not work, nor using Google account login hence the support request here.

I have used this successfully on a number of other Joomla sites but I’m on a different host and I am unable to get the update to work properly.

I get the checksum error but when I look in the temp directory I see the .gzip file has a size of zero. The xml file is fine.

I am trying to upgrade from 1.5.21 to 1.5.22.

Thanks!

I downloaded, installed and updated my Turnkey Joomla (1.5.14) on the test site I run locally with Virtualbox. All went well without a hitch. However, when I try to update the same installation on my hosting provider I get:

JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected
Unable to create destination

with a whole load of “Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts) is not within the allowed path(s” errors.

I’ve fiddled around and made every directory writeable to no avail. If I could get it to run as well on my ‘proper’ site as it does on my test site, I’d be very please, and be grateful for any help to do so.

Jim

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

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!

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curl
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My phpinfo states: “cURL support enabled”
However, I still get the following error:
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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?