[SOLVED] How can I upgrade to Joomla1.7 without softaculous

[wwb]

My January trick of forcing Joomla installation onto the root has come back to haunt me. When I installed that first Joomla, I put it on the /joomla16 folder. I later had to copy it to the root to enable the URL of my site be accessible without adding /joomla16. By that time, I had not developed any site pages or modules, so the risk was low and there was nothing to loose.

 

Now I have developed a site with articles, modules and databases. My current problem is that softaculous still remembers that joomla was installed in /joomla16. It has forced the upgrade of joomla 1.7 to be installed on the /joomla16 folder. However, since January, all my Joomla site and structure is being done at the root. (I have not yet logged onto the /joomla16 to finalize the upgrade, since this is not what I expected. Nonetheless, my site is still working well based on joomla 1.6 on the root).

 

Can I get help on either upgrading Joomla1.6 to Joomla1.7 without softaculous or forcing softaculous to install the upgrade on the root. I can not see an option of changing the default installation location when doing an upgrade with softaculous.

 

Your valuable help is always appreciated.

[Guest xaav]

I would not use softalacous at all, but instead use the jUpgrade component.

is a great tutorial on upgrading to 1.6, just substitute the instructions for upgrading to 1.7. The procedure is the same, since the jUpgrade component now upgrades your site to 1.7.

[wwb]

Thank you for the guide. I followed the tutorial and managed to install Akeeba and backed up the site. However, jUpgrade component could not install. I kept getting an error message. After three tries and two re-downloads I gave up on jUpgrade. That is when I read somewhere that upgrading 1.6 to 1.7 has been made easy by just a click. This is the process:

- on the backend, click on Extension Manager - Update - then purge cache

- then click on Find updates, upon which an entry of the new 1.7 should show

- just click the checkbox and update

My first update attempt gave me an error that some two directories could not update

A retried the process of of Update a second time and it worked.

 

I now see that the backend Joomla version is 1.7.1

 

Am able to logon to CPanel without a problem and it seems my database is still intact (though I have not yet checked phpMyAdmin). However, the site pages seem to work.

[Krydos]

Glad your problem got solved!

 

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