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How to upgrade Joomla 1.7 to Joomla! 2.5

13 Feb

With Joomla! 2.5 the latest (and greatest?) version of the poppular CMS has been released somewhere last month. Since this is a LTS version – Joomla! 2.5 will be supported for 18 months which means one and a half year of patches – this is the version people will want to use for the time being.

But maybe you’re an early adopter, or just chose to use the 1.6 or 1.7 series. There were good reasons to do so. One was that there was a promise of “simple one-click upgrades” to Joomla! 2.5 which, of course, sounds tempting. Joomla now features an update option, just for that reason.

Your best bet is still AdminTools

Unfortunately, the built-in upgrade option in Joomla! 1.7 has lead to problems. People who were hosting their sites on “cheaper” hosting, like Godaddy and the likes ran into problems when using this option. When their (not that great) server decides it doesn’t want to play nice anymore, the update process can stop abruptly. The results of this can be unpleasant – it can even “destroy” your site (you did make a back-up before upgrading, right?)

Fortunately, there is an alternative option. One which doesn’t assume that your hosting is super awesome, and which knows how to work around the limits of your (shared) hosting setup. The solution’s name? AdminTools bij Akeeba. If you have the latest version of AdminTools installed, you can safely upgrade your site to Joomla! 2.5 with only a few clicks.

How it’s done

  1. First of all, make a back-up of your site. Performing an upgrade is never without risks.
  2. Make sure you’ve got the latest version of AdminTools installed.
  3. Open AdminTools. It will prompt you that a new update of Joomla! is available. Click the button, and follow the instructions.
  4. Your site will now be upgraded to the latest version.  AdminTools is designed to work around most of the problems cheap hosting could cause, so you should experience no problems with the upgrade.

Note: If you’re rather safe than sorry, perform the step above on  a copy of your website, so you can see what happens. You can use AkeebaBackup and Kickstart to clone your site and create a “test” environment for your upgrade.

When you’re done, you can enjoy the new features of Joomla! 2.5, but even more important: you’re on the right (LTS) tracik for at least 18 months. Enjoy!

 
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Posted by on February 13, 2012 in Joomla

 

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Upgrade to Joomla! 1.5.25 using AdminTools

14 Nov

As we all know, upgrading your Joomla! website is an important thing to do. And with two security releases in a short time, it’s possible some of you forgot to apply all the updates.

If you’re not on version 1.5.24 of Joomla you’ll see that there are no upgrade packages available for your version of Joomla!. The only upgrade package available is the 1.5.24 to 1.5.25 upgrade.

In the worst case scenario you’d now have to upgrade all sites to 1.5.23 first, then upgrade them to 1.5.24 and then to 1.5.25. Which is quite the chore if you’ve got a few sites under your belt.

Not if you use Admintools, though…

Users of Admintools can easily upgrade their sites using the built-in “upgrade” functionality which offers you one-click upgrades. Nice and easy!  But what do you do when the “Upgrade” option isn’t available in Admintools because there’s no upgrade package? Use the “Re-install option!”

Using the re-install option you can upgrade your site to the latest version of Joomla, without breaking your site. What happens, is that (all) the new files are written to your website, so you’ll have the latest version.

As always, we recommend you to create a back-up before upgrading.

Haven’t installed Admintools yet? Get it here for free.

Steps to follow

1. Go to Components > Admin Tools.

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2. Click the button saying “Joomla! Core UPDATE FOUND

3. In the next screen, click “Reinstall 1.5.25”

4. In the following screen, click “Update Joomla!”

After Admin Tools does its thing, your website will now be upgraded to the latest version.

Note: Admin Tools also works under Joomla 1.7.

 
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Posted by on November 14, 2011 in Joomla

 

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Free download: “Joomla 1.7 beginner Guide” by Hagen Graf

06 Nov

Joomla! 1.7 has been available for quite a while now. Hagen Graf has written a new book to cover Joomla 1.7 and I realize I haven’t linked to it yet.

The book, which is written in English (with different translations available) covers all the aspects of building and maintaining your own Joomla! website. The PDF version is free for everyone to download. Unfortunately it’s not ad free, but that’s a small price to pay for a free book. Other versions are also available, but the price might vary.

You can download the book as a PDF here.
You can find the page with links to other formats here. 

 

 
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Posted by on November 6, 2011 in Joomla

 

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How I caused and solved “Infinite loop detected in JError”

04 Nov

I should have known better than to try and postpone moving a site from our development server to it’s live environment on a Friday afternoon, merely an hour before I’d stop working. As usual, that’s why things go wrong.

After creating the back-up of the development server, I uploaded it to the server and fired up Akeeba Kickstart. (Read an article here on how to use Akeeba Kickstart with your own distro, an new article will come soon)  Because of a bad experience with the mysql server the day before, I decided to create a new database. I decided to be as “safe as possible”, and generated this cool fellow:

Xk;&7~F>sR9k=5ZVo2]q?>>~ka=a_#s3vDs”

I used Akeeka Kickstart to deploy the site on the live environment and this time I encountered no problems with the database. I was relieved. Until I tried to vied the site, and was greeted with the following message:

Infinite loop detected in JError

Solving this issue

I’m not claiming credit where it’s not due. An article in the Joomla! knowledge base explains perfectly what the cause of this problem is. To summarize, this file indicates that something’s wrong with your configuration file. Read the document for more information, it’ll set you on the right path.

As for me, the “problem” was… the password for the MySQL database. I’ve learned that, generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to end your password with a “.  Or any other setting in the configuration.php file, as it turns out…

 
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Posted by on November 4, 2011 in Joomla

 

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Two ‘NoNumber’ Tutorials published on Toralko

18 Oct

Just because we haven’t posted something here at Joomla & More doesn’t mean that we’ve slacked!  In the past week, I’ve written and published two tutorials for Nonumber extensions:

  • Nonumber Extension Manager: Covers how to use this very important extension.  It allows you to install and update all other Nonumber extensions so this is the first extension any Nonumber fan will want to install.
  • Nonumber What? Nothing! (The Ultimate Guide): This guide reveals the secrets of What? Nothing. Not sure what it’s supposed to do? Not working as expected? Then read our extensive and detailed guide!.

In the past we used to publish our guides as PDF’s, but from now on we’ll likely post them online at www.toralko.net. Joomla & More will still be the place to go for Joomla! tips, fixes and suggestions.

 

 
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Posted by on October 18, 2011 in Joomla

 

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