Halfway upgrade 2.5.28 to 3.5.1

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stefsoll
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Halfway upgrade 2.5.28 to 3.5.1

Post by stefsoll » Fri May 06, 2016 12:20 pm

Dear all,

first of all, I do not know Joomla very well so my apologies for my query. I have searched the forum for an answer but it seems nothing covers my situation.

I decided to upgrade an old Joomla 2.5.28 website with a clean install of a 3.5.1 version on a subdomain in order to test it before going live on the official domainname.

I copied the (proprietary) template from the old dir to the new dir and it works fine.

I used a free extention (j2xml 3.2.1 - b 394) to export->imports articles, categories and users. Also this worked fine too. Unfortunately this doesn't move any other "object".

But i still miss the extentions and the menu. Copying the menu table and the components/plugins folders doesn't seem to work and the extention cmd2cmd seems not to be working for me.

Anyone has suggestions on the best way to complete my upgrade?

Many thanks
Stefsoll

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Re: Halfway upgrade 2.5.28 to 3.5.1

Post by sovainfo » Fri May 06, 2016 1:05 pm

Suggest to see docs.joomla.org for migrating.
Issue with migrating? Include logs/joomla_update.php in your report!
Blank screen? Verify pagesource for HTML code (javascript error)
Installation failing on populating database? Install with set_time_limit(0)
Document your customizations!

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Re: Halfway upgrade 2.5.28 to 3.5.1

Post by stefsoll » Fri May 06, 2016 2:02 pm

I have seen the article which is this: https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_2.5_to_3 ... _Migration but i used a different approach to migration and the reason is/was that the upgrade self did not work in my case, also not on the back up version.

So, I have started from a clean install of my version 3.5.1 which is also what some over here have done and I would like to know if you can advice on how to proceed to complete it.

Thanks.

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Re: Halfway upgrade 2.5.28 to 3.5.1

Post by sovainfo » Fri May 06, 2016 3:04 pm

In that case suggest you have a look at SP Transfer.
The alternative is to copy manually.

Or make the upgrade work of course, no reason for it not to work.
Issue with migrating? Include logs/joomla_update.php in your report!
Blank screen? Verify pagesource for HTML code (javascript error)
Installation failing on populating database? Install with set_time_limit(0)
Document your customizations!


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