Unable to update joomla site

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

Hi my joomla site is currently running v. 1.5.15 due to failure to update after having incrementally updated joomla using emerge.
I believe this is because when I originally made my sites I copied the /var/ww/loocalhost to /var/ww/domainname* for each of my domains. So, how do I update joomla, and make it auto update my sites for the future (if possible)? - the localhost updates as expected.

I found that after added the useflag vhosts I now have to manually update using webapp-config, and I found out that this is simply done automaticly if not setting the useflag, so I guess I'll have to run the following:

webapp-config -U -h somewebsite.com -u root -d / joomla 1.5.19
- but when I do this I get:
* Fatal error: Cannot clean!
* Fatal error: No package installed in /var/www/somewebsite.com/htdocs
* Fatal error(s) - aborting

This might be because when I initally set up the sites I did it "manually, the hardway" unknowning of tools like webapp-config.
So what do I do in terms of updating the joomla installation from 1.5.15 to 1.5.19 (or 1.5.20 if I have to dl from joomla directly?)

EDIT: by the way, I have ensured that "somewebsite.com" doesn't have a joomla directory because I copied the joomla directory to /var/www/somewebsite/ - Also Joomla is installed using emerge.

Thanks in advance. :-)

Veldrin · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:14 am Post subject:

You are trying to upgrade an installation that does not exist?! (at least from you explanation)

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

You're right, I sort of came to that conclusion myself, but how do I update the site then?

Veldrin · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:41 am Post subject:

I am not that fluent with webapp-config (at least while I am away from my gentoo system)

I would try the following:

create a new vhost (just the folder structure)
install some version of (old) joomla (e.g 1.5.15)
upgrade that version to a new one (e.g to 1.5.19)

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

Thanks for the assistance so far.

I am unable to emerge joomla 1.5.15 because I do not have the package. If I do the following I get an error:

# emerge =www-apps/joomla-1.5.15 -p
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=www-apps/joomla-1.5.15".

- Will I be able to mv the current domain to something like mydomain.bak, create the site with "webapp-config -I -h realdomain.com -u root -d htdocs/joomla joomla 1.5.19"

then copy back the old contents and do a:
"webapp-config -U -h realdomain.com -u root -d htdocs/joomla joomla 1.5.19"

Or would that fail, maybe because the site seems to already be 1.5.19, at least according to web-app? - In which case is there a switch for webapp to "repair", which might solve this?

... Alternatively I'll need to find a way to get joomla-1.5.15 onto my system?

John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:50 am Post subject:

The Joomla 1.5.15 ebuild is available in the attic. You can install it in your local overlay and it'll become available to emerge.

- John
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Veldrin · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:08 pm Post subject:

Or, if it's just for testing purposes, you could install 1.5.18 (which is in portage) and then upgrade to 1.5.19....

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

sorry for the noob question, how do I emerge from the attic? I assume this is the link I need: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-apps/joomla/joomla-1.5.15.ebuild?hideattic=0&view=log - as the one you sent me is for 1.0.15.

I am running on a x64 system, but kernel has support for x86, will this make a difference?

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

OK, I'll try emerge 1.5.18 and see if I have any luck. :-)

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

OK So here's what I did:

1. Moved original site to /var/www/originalsite.bak
2. Ran "webapp-config -I -h originalsite -u root joomla 1.5.18"
3. Copied the original files back into /var/www/originalsite
- At this point the site returns to version 1.5.15 obviously.
4. Updated the site to 1.5.19 with: "webapp-config -U -h originalsite -u root joomla 1.5.19"
5. Remove the install directory added by step 2 with "rm /var/www/originalsite/htdocs/installation/ -r"

And the sites up and running :-)

- This is a fairly dirty trick I believe, and might have left some nasty leftovers that I am unfamiliar with?
Amongst some interesting things that came up after running webapp-config is this:

"* Invalid line "" removed from the database file!"
and
"* One or more files have been config protected
* To complete your install, you need to run the following command(s):
*
* CONFIG_PROTECT="/var/www/team-levitas.com/htdocs//" etc-update"

running "etc-update" didn't have anything to offer me though.

Anyway this worked and I believe I can now rest easy with an updated joomla :-)

Thanks a ton for the assistance guys!

John R. Graham · ebuild joomla-1.5.15.ebuild manifest

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

I am wondering why the -U paramter on webapp-config adds the installation/ directory though? I tried removing it after the original installation of the site but it appeared again after the update?

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

zitrez · n00b Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 15

apperantly my phpbb3 forum is now down, maybe related to the removing blank line?

EDIT: Ok, removing all files with the .php extension in /var/www/htdocs/domainname/forum/cache and making the cache writable solved the issue. This is totaly irrelevant to gentoo, but just incase someone stumbles over here in a search :-)