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Did your Joomla upgrade to 2.5.0 from 1.7.3 crashed?
Here is some updated (and hopefully helpful) information. I have been testing the 1.7.3 to 2.5.0 update on http://works.mihaimoga.com/ and here is what I have found so far.
1. It appears that, if the update can be completed in less than 2 minutes exactly, it works ok. If the update takes longer than 2 minutes, you get Internal Server error and it is aborted at that point.
2. The state of your site depends entirely on how far along you were when the 2 minute limit was hit. If you are lucky, the update either doesn’t get started or finishes loading the files. If you are unlucky, the 2.5.0 files are partially copied and the site is rendered unusable.
3. It doesn’t seem to matter which update method you use. The 2-minute limit holds true for all of them. So none of the methods is safe on GoDaddy at this time.
4. There is an update method that works and it can also be used to recover from a crashed partial update. It is not ideal, but it works. The steps are as follows:
a. Copy the Joomla_2.5.0-Stable-Update_Package.zip to your root html folder.
b. Using the FTP File Manager, Unarchive this file. Check the Override Existing Files box.
c. After this completes, the site should load.
d. In the back end, go to Installation Manager: Database. It will likely show problems. Click Fix and it should fix the problems.
e. Go to Installation Manager: Discover and click Discover. It will likely show new extensions. Select them all and click Install. It should install the new 2.5 extensions.
f. At this point, everything should be OK except that it will still indicate that you need to update to 2.5.0 in the Update tab (even though you don’t!). To fix this, you need to edit a row in the database.
g. Go to the phpMyAdmin and find the row in the #__extensions table where id=700. In the manifest_cache column, you will see the text: ”version”:”1.7.3” Change this to “version”:”2.5.0”
Be careful to not change anything else in this column.
At this point, your site should be OK.
(Source: forum.joomla.org)
