If you have found yourself in a scenario where you cannot update Joomla! via the Joomla! Update Component and need to perform a manual update for any reason whatsoever, this script will assist with performing all necessary steps that would be taken after the update component runs the updates on the filesystem.
This script assumes that you have manually extracted the update package over your site and are ready to finish the update. You should trigger this script immediately after this process and before logging into your site's admin to do anything else, including the "database fix" routine.
To use this script, you should copy the postupdate.php
file to your site's administrator directory.
You can either access this script via a web request (https://www.example.com/administrator/postupdate.php
)
or from the command line interface (php /path/to/administrator/postupdate.php
).
This script will run the "finalise" and "cleanup" steps from the update component, which performs such tasks as any database migrations and the removal of old files from your installation.
Once complete, you should immediately remove this script from your server.
Dear Michael, I found your script because I got an error 1054 (control panel blocked) after running the automatic upgrade from joomla 3.5.1 to 3.6.5.
I downloaded and launched your script, but unfortunately I got the error message: Failed to finalize the upgrade, please check the logs for additional details.
Here are the logs, I wasn't able to get any help from the logs:
I don't know what to do. Should I try a manual upgrade? But how if the control panel is blocked? Thanks!