Upgrade from Joomla 1.7.3 ??

[wingnut144]

We use Joomla as a Intranet for our office and we're currently using Joomla 1.7.3

I noticed that Joomla 3.x has come out.....are there instructions on how I can upgrade from 1.7.x to 3??

[sovainfo]

Yes, and the instructions are to stick with J2.5.

[wingnut144]

Why is that??

[sovainfo]

Read the announcement, first board!

[Nick Savov]

Hi wingnut144,

You need to update from 1.7.3 to 2.5.7 ASAP. Please make a backup before proceeding and consult with Joomla's documentation:
http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_from_J ... Joomla_2.5

Then check out the Joomla 3 FAQ:
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/commu ... 0-faq.html

Kind regards,
Nick

[cyford]

i am not seeing any way to complete this upgrade from 1.7.3

1) There are no updates internally. and get error (XML error: EntityRef: expecting ';' at line 3)
2 ) the patches are from 1.7 - 1.7.5 and 1.7.4 - 1.7.5 ( and both error out)
http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updatin ... wards.html
***** Manual signatures are NOT allowed *****_ ERROR ***** Manual signatures are NOT allowed ********** Manual signatures are NOT allowed *****_


JInstaller: :Install: Error SQL DB function failed with error number 1060
Duplicate column name 'ordering' SQL=ALTER TABLE `qi93d_languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER `published`;
SQL =

ALTER TABLE `#__languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER `published`;

Files Update: SQL error file DB function failed with error number 1060
Duplicate column name 'ordering' SQL=ALTER TABLE `qi93d_languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER `published`;
SQL =

ALTER TABLE `#__languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER `published`;

***** Manual signatures are NOT allowed ********** Manual signatures are NOT allowed ********** Manual signatures are NOT allowed ********** Manual signatures are NOT allowed *****___
Allen Ford
http://www.cyfordtechnologies.com

[cyford]

ok i learned that even with the errors it did upgrade.. till i got to Joomla_3.1.6-Stable-Update_Package.zip
now i get -
Fatal error: Call to undefined method InvalidArgumentException::get() in

and the complete site is down