Upgrading Joomla

As with most reviews of software or hardware, it is customary to start of with some good points of the subject under review. This is certainly not the case with the Joomla Upgrader “jUpgrade”.

First of all, one must download a certain extension, jUpgrade. Getting it into the installation took a bit of work with permissions. Two different settings, ftp=off, and set /tmp to 777. Next we enable the MooTools Upgrade plugin. So far so good, now the fun starts.

Apparently, testing this little tool is only accomplished in one browser, Firefox. Don’t bother with chrome, it won’t work at all. At least with IE8, it actually started before stopping at the half-way mark. Next we have to actually MOVE the previous installation out off the root directory because the jUpdater has made it’s OWN directory OWNED by apache. This is problematic. And one of the things about the server adding and moving files that I can’t stand. The new folders and files have to be owned by the ftp user in order to have any chance of changing or moving them.

What a failure. One browser worked, ftp didn’t.

The only cure was to ssh into the server and rm -rf jupgrade. The last time I had to do this was with Drupal.

Too bad. This isn’t even a good try. Take an example from wordpress.