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.
I'm experiencing a failure when attempting to upgrade 3.7.4 to 3.8.5
After running the upgrade via joomla update, attempting to visit the site, I only get "ERROR" in typewriter font and nothing else.
I've tried dumping the upgrade folder into the existing folders but nothing changes at all.
I then ran the above referenced php script and the response is similar to - ...3.7.4 successfully upgraded
Running the upgrade again and repeat "ERROR" message