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I'm new to Joomla, before this, my experience with web design was limited to Frontpage and html. I'm helping a friend fix his Joomla site when his web guy bailed on him. He needs to upgrate to Joomla 1.5 and I'm about to pull my hair out of my head trying to figure out what to do next.

I understand I need migrator. I downloaded it, and since I didn't know better I unzipped it and sent all the files to his web space with core FTP. Now I know I should have uploaded the zip file via CPanel and unpacked it there. Newbie mistake.

Installed it through the administrator section of his website, and it installed but when I clicked on it, it did nothing. I uninstalled it and cleaned out the files I uploaded. I uploaded migrator the correct way through CPanel, went back to the administrator section and tried to install it and got an error message, com_migrator already exists. I went to the area wherte these com_Migrator fields are and manually deleted them in cpanel. Went to install again and got the same message. The files I deleted came back. What do I do? He's having problems with his 1.0 installation and I need to get him to 1.5. What can I do?

Worst case, I wish I could create a brand new 1.5 version of his website, and install everything brand new without migrating. There are so many problems with the existing site. Is there a way to install a new site right beside the new one, without deleting the old one?

Delete the following directories:
.../administrator/components/com_migrator
.../components/com_migrator
Go to Installers -> Components. Select the Migrator radio button (if it exists) and do Uninstall.

Go to phpMyAdmin or another MySQL tool and delete the following table:
jos_migrator_tasks

Now reinstalling the Migrator should work. To do so, I go to Installers -> Components, Browse... for migrator_rc7.zip on my local computer, and hit Upload File & Install.



If your friend's site is just content, you might be better off just settings up a fresh Joomla 1.5 and copying any content he has over. If he is using a template that someone else made, check to see if there's a 1.5 version of it out there. You can also turn on the System - Legacy plugin in Joomla 1.5 if you need to use things that aren't natively written for Joomla 1.5.

You can just setup a sub-folder on his site (call it joomla15?) and setup the new site there. I would create a new database for the new Joomla 1.5 install as well, so you can keep his old 1.0 database just in case. Once you have the site how you want it, you can just move everything up to the root folder and change 1-2 settings in configuration.php.

I would suggest getting JoomlaPack
http://www.joomlapack.net/
and making backups before you do anything.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

So by creating a new database, even if Migrator installs properly this time I can creat a enw website without overtaking the existing one?

He has a Virtuemart shopping cart, and a lot of stuff entered. It would be best to get Migrator installed instead of doing everything from scratch. I don't want the existing site to come down though till the new site is ready to go.

Yes. If you create a new database for the Joomla 1.5 site and unzip the Joomla 1.5 install in a subdirectory, you can go to that directory to set it up. You can have many Joomla installs running on the same domain this way:

http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/Joomla_15_one/
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/Joomla_15_two/
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/Joomla_15_etc/

The Migrator needs plugins to migrate component data like VirtueMart. I would make sure one exists before going on. VirtueMart might have a way to export and import all it's data which may be easier than migrating it's data with the migrator.

Good luck. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

The owner of PGW and I both took some time off up site upgrading, due to stuff he was workign on and my day job. Plus, we had to make several artisitc changes to the existing site for now before we upgraded.

Things have settled down now, and we want to get his site upgraded asap.

I deleted all the files you said to, excpet for jos_migrator_tasks in phpmyadmin.

I went to phpmyadmin, and I found a table called jos_migrator_backlinks but I could not find jos_migrator_tasks.

Should I delete jos_migrator_backlinks?

Once I do this, and once I get migrator installed once and for all I can start on the new site.

It looks like #__migration_backlinks is a core table, so I would leave it:

I found this at justanswer.com

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/1qp ... a-1-0-site

If this doesn't solve it you will need to do the following:

You should uncomment the lines 55-58 of /administrator/components/com_installer/component/component.class.php

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// if (file_exists($this->elementDir())) {
// $this->setError( 1, 'Another component is already using directory: "' . $this->elementDir() . '"' );
// return false;
// }

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Following your advice and the info there migrator is now installed and so far working properly.

Thanks!

Originally I created a folder called new15 under the public html folder. It also overtook the existing website when i did that.

I know how to create a new database, but exactly where should the new15 folder go?

That is what I would do. You should be able to get to each of the sites by going to:
Joomla 1.0 - http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/
Joomla 1.5 - http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/new15/

Once you get the conversion done, you can move the 1.0 files to pubic_html/backup10/ or something, move the new15 files to the root, and fix the configuration.php files as needed.

Let me know if this makes sense.

If you can explain how the new15 took over the original website, I might be able to help.

The 1st time I tried, I uploaded Joomla 1.5 to public html and upzipped it in cpanel. Then I made a new database and I thought I referenced that database when I started the conversion process. This is back when Migrator had messed up, I was not going to migrate files but just create a whole 2nd site.

For some reason, the new 1.5 took over the main site. Maybe I accidentally referenced the original database. I'm not sure now.

So, if I have a folder named new15 on public html, and I create a new database and only reference that database during the install, I shoudl ahve a complete 2nd site and the main phoenixgolfworld.com will be ok?

When you say fix the configruation.php files, what will I need to fix once the new site is moved over?

1 more question. Will I have an option to upload the migrator files after Joomla 1.5 and the new virtuemart are installed, or do I have to load the migrator files at the beginning of the install, before Virtuemart is installed.

It looks like Virtuemart will be installed only after I've installed and set up Joomla 1.5.

I guess the Athena template will nto be installed till after Virtuemart is installed as well.

Sorry for the late response. I had to send my laptop in for repairs, so I was computer-less for a few days.

I believe the way you described setting up two different sites should work. Once again, making a backup with Joomlapack of your site will save you if you do happen to mess anything up.

I believe you should install everything you want on the 1.5 site before running the migration files.

If you don't have a local development environment setup on your local machine, I highly recommend it. It makes work much faster and once you have the site ready to go, you can just use Joomlapack to back it up and move it to your live server.

Let me know if I can help with anything else.