question about joomla versions and update problems
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:17 pm
Hello, I assist someone in running multiple joomla sites. that unfortunately are in in old versions and not upgraded yet. All these site are production sites for businesses so downtime is not an option if something goes wrong.
One site is running 1.7.3. About a month ago we tried to upgrade it to 2.5, and it seemed like it worked, but it was a disaster the next day. Clients could not login, do to what looked like a compatibility problem with "Admin Tools", so we had to roll the site back to 1.7.3. Obviously this has made us extremely gun shy about upgrading.
one question I have is I see all the high security alerts for 2.5, and i'm still sitting at 1.7.3. They are High severity, but not deemed as critical. Obviously, i need to help in upgrading this eventually again, but the owner does not have a lot $ to pay for time to do the upgrade right now and test it. How hard should i push to get these upgraded to 2.5.
The owner also has some older sites running 1.5.21. The tricky part of this is that it is running Joomla Multi Site. So upgrading this is even more trickier. These sites have been running fine for 2 years, and I really don't want to touch them, as there is a large number based here. Is 1.5.21 a safe version to stay at, even though I have seen couple of security alerts.
thanks for the information, I love joomla, but I do not enjoy the complexity with the spider of compatibility issues that arrise with security updates and component versions. It is complicated.
One site is running 1.7.3. About a month ago we tried to upgrade it to 2.5, and it seemed like it worked, but it was a disaster the next day. Clients could not login, do to what looked like a compatibility problem with "Admin Tools", so we had to roll the site back to 1.7.3. Obviously this has made us extremely gun shy about upgrading.
one question I have is I see all the high security alerts for 2.5, and i'm still sitting at 1.7.3. They are High severity, but not deemed as critical. Obviously, i need to help in upgrading this eventually again, but the owner does not have a lot $ to pay for time to do the upgrade right now and test it. How hard should i push to get these upgraded to 2.5.
The owner also has some older sites running 1.5.21. The tricky part of this is that it is running Joomla Multi Site. So upgrading this is even more trickier. These sites have been running fine for 2 years, and I really don't want to touch them, as there is a large number based here. Is 1.5.21 a safe version to stay at, even though I have seen couple of security alerts.
thanks for the information, I love joomla, but I do not enjoy the complexity with the spider of compatibility issues that arrise with security updates and component versions. It is complicated.