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Hi,

I’ve followed the upgrade instructions to the letter but when I attempt to run update.php, I get the following error message:

Notice: Undefined variable: conf in /home/stign3/public_html/system/update.php on line 58

Warning: require(./db/db..php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stign3/public_html/system/update.php on line 58

Warning: require(./db/db..php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stign3/public_html/system/update.php on line 58

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./db/db..php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/stign3/public_html/system/update.php on line 58

Thoughts on what I should do next?  I renamed my system folder in the former installation (but have changed back to ‘system’ in this post to keep it secret). 

Robin Z.

Robin, can you check to see if you have a valid config.php file?

Surprising, the config file was empty when I looked.  But after restoring tonight’s backup config, the update.php page still generates the same error message.

Thanks for the amazingly quick response, though.

Robin

Here’s something strange: it seems that each time I run update.php, the config.php file is being erased. 

Robin

Success!  It turns out that update.php was deleting my config.php file.  I got things to work by uploading my backup copy after visiting update.php but before clicking the link to begin the 1.52 to 1.6 conversion.  A bit of dark magic…but it worked.

Thanks for steering me towards the config.php file.

Best,
Robin

just fyi, i got a similar error, the resolution here worked, it almost gave me a heart attack though.

Sorry all, the download has been hotfixed; turns out the circumvention I added to help Windows servers recognize whether or not a file was actually writable had a wee error that truncated the file when opening it.  So, can I blame Windows?  :\

Thank you for reporting this problem, guys.  This has been fixed in the latest download.

Oh, Derek beat me. =)