Hi, I'm trying to help someone clean up an old Joomla website. They once had Virtuemart installed but it is no longer installed. After I cleaned the old Virtuemart tables out of the database, the entire public end of the site began redirecting to an administrator page for migrating/updating virtuemart, like:
http://www.domainname.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=updatesmigration&install=1
How do I stop it from doing this? Where is this redirect command coming from?
(I do have a recent backup I can restore, but I'd like to avoid this happening in the future, if possible.)
Thanks!
hrmmm, VM version, Joomla version, etc
Is there something in the Joomla install directory ??
Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi
That is the normal behaviour, when you call vm via menu item and there is nothing installed, it calls the installer then.
Didn't know that. Nice to learn something new.
Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi
Quote from: Milbo on July 28, 2018, 12:29:51 PM
That is the normal behaviour, when you call vm via menu item and there is nothing installed, it calls the installer then.
That's what I thought might have been involved, but the home page was not linked to a Virtuemart menu item. It was linked to the Article Manager's Featured Articles. In fact, Virtuemart **was not even installed** on this site. There was no Virtuemart in the Components menu, no VM modules and only two orphaned VM payment plugins. There were a few Virtuemart menu items, but these were unpublished with the note "component not installed."
This redirection error started happening after I deleted Virtuemart's (presumably) orphaned database tables and it happened regardless of which public page I tried to access.
Anyway, I'm going to be experimenting with a copy of this site on a test server today to see if I can recreate this and isolate why it's happening.
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hrmmm, VM version, Joomla version, etc
Is there something in the Joomla install directory ??
Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi
This is a poorly managed Joomla 2.5 site hosted at Godaddy. There's no known version of Virtuemart, for the reason statedabove. I'll check the installation folder, thanks!
Reminds me of an old tutorial I wrote long time ago. Perhaps some of the hints in that article are still helpful in your case, if you want to clear any VM leftovers.
https://docs.virtuemart.net/tutorials/installation-migration-upgrade/98-possible-virtuemart-installation-problems.html