Hello Everyone,
I did a bevy of stupid things tonight, but here's the full rundown:
Tonight, I planned to install VirtueMart 2.9.8 on a live site. I didn't take a full backup first, assuming my incremental backups were working(they weren't; always test your backups). First, i applied an update to Joomla to go from Joomla 3.2.4 to Joomla 3.3.1. I did some testing and it was working fine. Then i proceeded to download the VirtueMart2.9.8_Joomla_2.5.22-Stable-Full_Package.zip from the test site and i went to the extension manager and uploaded and installed the ZIP. Once i did this, the site and back end are completely inaccessible.
The Main Page and all subpages show:
Error: 500 - Unknown column 'a.title_alias' in 'field list' SQL=SELECT a.id, a.title, a.alias, a.title_alias, a.introtext, a.language, a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, a.created_by_alias, CASE WHEN a.modified = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.modified END as modified, a.modified_by, uam.name as modified_by_name,CASE WHEN a.publish_up = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END as publish_up,a.publish_down, a.images, a.urls, a.attribs, a.metadata, a.metakey, a.metadesc, a.access, a.hits, a.xreference, a.featured, LENGTH(a.fulltext) AS readmore,CASE WHEN badcats.id is not null THEN 0 ELSE a.state END AS state,c.title AS category_title, c.path AS category_route, c.access AS category_access, c.alias AS category_alias,CASE WHEN a.created_by_alias > ' ' THEN a.created_by_alias ELSE ua.name END AS author,ua.email AS author_email,( SELECT MAX(contact.id) AS id FROM jos_contact_details AS contact WHERE contact.published = 1 AND contact.user_id = a.created_by) as contactid,parent.title as parent_title, parent.id as parent_id, parent.path as parent_route, parent.alias as parent_alias,ROUND(v.rating_sum / v.rating_count, 0) AS rating, v.rating_count as rating_count,c.published, CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN c.published ELSE 0 END AS parents_published FROM jos_content AS a LEFT JOIN jos_content_frontpage AS fp ON fp.content_id = a.id LEFT JOIN jos_categories AS c ON c.id = a.catid LEFT JOIN jos_users AS ua ON ua.id = a.created_by LEFT JOIN jos_users AS uam ON uam.id = a.modified_by LEFT JOIN jos_categories as parent ON parent.id = c.parent_id LEFT JOIN jos_content_rating AS v ON a.id = v.content_id LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT cat.id as id FROM jos_categories AS cat JOIN jos_categories AS parent ON cat.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt WHERE parent.extension = 'com_content' AND parent.published != 1 GROUP BY cat.id ) AS badcats ON badcats.id = c.id WHERE a.access IN (1,1) AND c.access IN (1,1) AND CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN a.state ELSE 0 END = 1 AND a.catid = 19 AND (a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_up <= '2014-07-08 02:54:33') AND (a.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_down >= '2014-07-08 02:54:33') ORDER BY c.lft, CASE WHEN a.publish_up = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END DESC , a.created LIMIT 0, 9
The Back End shows:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method JHtml::getJSObject() in /home/wslsorg/public_html/libraries/cms/html/bootstrap.php on line 476
Line 476 of bootstrap.ini simply says "$options = JHtml::getJSObject($opt);" and the bootstrap.ini wasn't edited by the upgrade, so i figure it's pointing to something elsewhere, but i'm not sure where.
I am not quite sure where to go from here. I am hoping someone here will have some suggestions on things to try, so i can get the site back up soon. I truly appreciate any help you may have.
Additional Information: I am using Rockettheme Chapelco Gantry Template, if that matters at all. Additionally, the website is wsls.org.
QuoteThen i proceeded to download the VirtueMart2.9.8_Joomla_2.5.22-Stable-Full_Package.zip and i went to the extension manager and uploaded and installed the ZIP
but this incls. Joomla 2.5.22 in the pack!!!! amazed you got it to install on a J3.3!!! even as an extension surely it fails?
I really think your buggered - you could troubleshoot this for weeks if you really did install this whole package (is it installable? thought it had to be run like a clean Joomla install)
Personally I would stop while your ahead and start saving as much as you can of tables and folders etc and start afresh - considering that 2.9.8 is still a test release sequence and hasn't been officially approved as stable for J3.3 why are you even doing this - ?
Quote from: GJC Web Design on July 08, 2014, 14:22:39 PM
QuoteThen i proceeded to download the VirtueMart2.9.8_Joomla_2.5.22-Stable-Full_Package.zip and i went to the extension manager and uploaded and installed the ZIP
but this incls. Joomla 2.5.22 in the pack!!!! amazed you got it to install on a J3.3!!! even as an extension surely it fails?
I really think your buggered - you could troubleshoot this for weeks if you really did install this whole package (is it installable? thought it had to be run like a clean Joomla install)
Personally I would stop while your ahead and start saving as much as you can of tables and folders etc and start afresh - considering that 2.9.8 is still a test release sequence and hasn't been officially approved as stable for J3.3 why are you even doing this - ?
Great questions all around, haha. Thanks for the reply. I suppose I wasn't aware that 2.5.22 was also included in the package, but i should have done more research on the file name. I did find a backup from March that will cause me to lose a fair bit of work, but it may be a better alternative than troubleshooting all of the issues I may have. I guess now that you say it, i'm surprised that it would run from the extension manager and install Joomla over my existing instance. It even updated the version in cPanel!
amazed it ran and didn't throw up errors
yes - think your far better off with the old backup and try and save the latest DB tables