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Hi,

I have just followed http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/installation/update_build.html to upgrade to 1.7.x but I now get this:

The system does not appear to be installed. Click here to install it.

Dunno which bit is wrong

Help please.

Thanks

Mark

Ran into this myself. Make sure your path.php file is restored back to its original form.  You’ll also want to delete the update.php file form your /system directory.

It should have the following contents:

<?php

// ------------------------------------------------------
// DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE A REASON TO

// ------------------------------------------------------
// Path to the directory containing your backend files

$system_path = "./system/";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

?>

Hi,

Thanks for the info .... I am now getting this Database Error: Unable to select your database   which is strange because the config.php is correct?

Mark

Not sure, your config should look like this:

<?php

if ( ! defined('EXT')){
exit('Invalid file request');
}

$conf['app_version'] = "170";
$conf['license_number'] = "";
$conf['debug'] = "1";
$conf['install_lock'] = "1";
$conf['db_hostname'] = "localhost";
$conf['db_username'] = "sql_user";
$conf['db_password'] = "sql_pass";
$conf['db_name'] = "sql_database";
$conf['db_type'] = "mysql";
$conf['db_prefix'] = "exp";
$conf['db_conntype'] = "0";
$conf['system_folder'] = "system";
$conf['cp_url'] = "http://path.local/system/index.php";
$conf['doc_url'] = "";
$conf['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$conf['is_system_on'] = "y";
$conf['allow_extensions'] = "y";
$conf['multiple_sites_enabled'] = "n";
?>

Are the permissions set correctly for config.php?

yep excatly the same apart from the app_version which I just changed to 170   perms are 666

One other thing I don’t have a database.php ?

Thanks

Alright, if the values weren’t changed in the config it doesn’t sound like the update was success.

Once you copied your 170 files did you execute the /system/update.php?

I have run the update but I get the white screen of death http://www.blinkspain.com

:(  how hard can it be to upgrade a system?

Now check your path.php again. Is it blank?  Also check your file permissions.

path.php should be 777.

path.php is fine and perms are correct :S

Hrmm..  let me run the upgrade on my dev server. I haven’t upped to 1.7.1 yet, just 1.7.0.

Did you delete your cache?

when you say delete the cache do you mean all of the files inside of the cache dir?

Yes..  I was able to update my dev website with no problem.

I backed up /system/config.php and /path.php,  copied the files from 1.7.1 and overwrote the main install.  I ran the /system/update.php which failed becuse it coudln’t write to teh config.php, so i restored my old config.php then ran the update.php again. It worked. I then removed the /system/updates and /system/update.php files and the /install.php file, and restored the path.php file.  Worked like a charm.

Maybe I will restore and try again

OK ... all restored back.  Will try again. My problems started when I wanted to change the site url.  It broke the site