I find myself in a bit of an issue. I took over a company website that was handled by an agency until not long ago. We wanted to finally update it to Joomla 4 like we did for all our other websites with no issue.
I took a backup using Akeeba, installed it on a local MAMP, tested the update after removing extensions that wouldn't work or updating the ones that needed to be compatible. The upgrade worked perfectly on the local installation.
I felt confident doing it on the live site, following the same steps: update/removal for extensions that needed it, fixed the database which required it, checked the PHP requirements. Once i started the update to J4.4 at around 70% i got a warning of failed checksum and then the website completely crashed, giving a 500 Unknown column 'fp.featured_up' in 'field list' error.
I panicked then restored the backup I had taken for the local test, since it was only 2 days old, and the website was restored.
Today I checked again what the Joomla Update tab was telling me and again I noticed database warnings that needed fix. Only this time when I went to Extensions -> Manage-> Database and did a Fix like it was recommended, the site crashed again.
Here's where I think something went wrong now: I restored the same backup once again, because it's a live site that is needed for work, but I simply put the kickstart installer and backup archive in the folder without deleting the files. This has usually worked in the past, but now I'm wondering if it was very stupid because the front end of the site was restored, however the backend keeps giving me a series of errors like "0 Class "JFormFieldList" not found"
and doesn't load anything.
Current PHP version is 8.0, we did not have FPA installed
I took a backup using Akeeba, installed it on a local MAMP, tested the update after removing extensions that wouldn't work or updating the ones that needed to be compatible. The upgrade worked perfectly on the local installation.
I felt confident doing it on the live site, following the same steps: update/removal for extensions that needed it, fixed the database which required it, checked the PHP requirements. Once i started the update to J4.4 at around 70% i got a warning of failed checksum and then the website completely crashed, giving a 500 Unknown column 'fp.featured_up' in 'field list' error.
I panicked then restored the backup I had taken for the local test, since it was only 2 days old, and the website was restored.
Today I checked again what the Joomla Update tab was telling me and again I noticed database warnings that needed fix. Only this time when I went to Extensions -> Manage-> Database and did a Fix like it was recommended, the site crashed again.
Here's where I think something went wrong now: I restored the same backup once again, because it's a live site that is needed for work, but I simply put the kickstart installer and backup archive in the folder without deleting the files. This has usually worked in the past, but now I'm wondering if it was very stupid because the front end of the site was restored, however the backend keeps giving me a series of errors like "0 Class "JFormFieldList" not found"
and doesn't load anything.
Current PHP version is 8.0, we did not have FPA installed
Statistics: Posted by lrdho — Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:02 am
