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Hello

I’m trying to upgrade from 1.5 to the latest version and have gotten stuck! I’ve uploaded the files as described in the installation guide but I’ve ended up with a blank page and can’t access the upgrade wizard.

After allowing the debug thingy on the system index page I’m now getting this message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /www/pmh5248/public_html/eesys/installer/core/Installer_Config.php on line 45

Can anyone enlighten me as to where to go from here? I’m on Engine Hosting by the way. And be gentle I don’t anything about php 😊

Hi, badfaery.

When you say you’re upgrading, are you going from 1.5 to 2.1.3, or are you trying to get to 1.7.1 first?

You’re on an older EH account, you may want to make sure you are on a server that works with PHP5 if you are upgrading to 2.1.3.

1. Using a text editor, create a new file containing only the following single line:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

  2. Save the file as ‘phpinfo.php’ and upload it to a publicly accessible directory on your server
  3. Point your browser to the location of the file, e.g. http://yoursite.com/phpinfo.php

Verify which version of PHP you’re on. Is it 5.x or later? If not, request to be moved to a different server.

Yes I’m was trying to go straight from 1.5 to 2.1.3.

I’ve uploaded the php file as you suggested and according to it the server is running PHP Version 4.3.9.

So I guess getting that changed is my first port of call.

Yup, that would be the first step. 😊

We’ll keep this open until you’re ready to continue.

The php upgrade is complete.

This time I’ve got as far as the installation wizard.

This is my new error message:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined variable: DB

Filename: updates/ud_160.php

Line Number: 71
Fatal error: Call to a member function insert_string() on a non-object in /www/pmh5248/public_html/eesys/installer/updates/ud_160.php on line 71

Hi badfaery,

Sorry you’re running into this. Please open system/installer/updates/ud_160.php and just before line 71 add:

$DB = $this->EE->db;

so it will look like:

$DB = $this->EE->db;
$Q[] = $DB->insert_string('exp_sites', 
...

Does that allow the upgrade to proceed?

Nope.

Error message is now:

A Database Error Occurred

Error Number: 1050

Table ‘exp_sites’ already exists

CREATE TABLE `exp_sites` ( `site_id` int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `site_label` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’, `site_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL default ‘’, `site_description` text NOT NULL, `site_system_preferences` TEXT NOT NULL , `site_mailinglist_preferences` TEXT NOT NULL , `site_member_preferences` TEXT NOT NULL , `site_template_preferences` TEXT NOT NULL , `site_weblog_preferences` TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY `site_id` (`site_id`), KEY `site_name` (`site_name`))

Filename: updates/ud_160.php

Line Number: 460

Okay, that’s progress. Now I think we just need to run the update on your untouched database. So restore the backup of your 1.5 database (make sure you’re restoring into an empty database, and that the table “exp_sites” doesn’t exist after the restoration) and try the update again.

Now the message is:

Error Number: 1146

Table ‘pmh5248a.exp_sites’ doesn’t exist

SELECT `site_system_preferences` FROM exp_sites WHERE site_id = ‘1’

Filename: core/Installer_Config.php

Line Number: 165

badfaery,

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Hi badfaery,

I was mostly able to get the site updated to 2.1.3. However, it looks like some of your templates were truncated/cut off and so are incomplete, resulting in tags not being parsed. The entries look fine (to me). Do you still have access to a copy of your 1.x site? Copying and pasting the templates over should work.

Thanks for getting me back up and running!

Hi badfaery,

This definitely wasn’t a smooth upgrade as very few sites are still on EE 1.5 or lower. Nevertheless we’re working to improve this in the future. And we are still looking into the template truncation, but I think copying and pasting the old templates over with some minor tweaks (exp:weblog:entries becomes exp:channel:entries, for example) will get you up and running the fastest. I’ll leave this thread open for you so let me know if you need further assistance. Thanks for your patience!

Hi badfaery,

Assuming that you are good to go but don’t hesitate to open a new thread if anything else comes up!