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The upgrade process worked well for the main Joomla elements.
But for K2, the migration forgot many elements: component not installed (just the tables are transferred and not completely), categories parameters reset to default values, no media migrated, ...
Same for akeeba backup.
Most of the migration has to be done manually.

It reports error 406: curl needs to be enabled, Categorically, it is! And if one click "Check", that's what it does; check... and check .... and check...

Maybe it went off to play chess?

Mind you, I'm also disappointed with the Joomla team that there is no easy migration between major version.

I spent over 2 weeks dealing with bug after bug and still never got this to work. Support is terrible. Takes 1-3 days per response.

I know this isnt a paid extension but they should still offer some answers to problems with it imho.

Also, their forums are super buggy, cant hardly even pull up a page on their website because it just hangs forever half the time and i have to start over again. Not a good sign in a software development company.

One of the worst companies i have worked with in 6 years of Joomla! development.

Off to try another extension and hopefully it will work out better.

Thanks,

The coder has really made it easy for joomla migration. Even though the component did not migrate any of third modules or components but I got all articles back.

Thanks again.

no good

#1 - must register for component and they send your password in text form in the email back to you - not good security

#2 - seems I would have been better off installing 2.5 manually and just copy/pasting the articles over - and Re-designing my whole site - since none of the components or modules were migrated over - also had articles a jumbled mess where it was migrating the HTML

too many problems to recommend - funny how these posts are either 1 star or 5 stars -

FYI - my site was big - had it for about 2 years - so lots of stuff - if that might be a common factor here

also I found the forums not helpful at all

in the mean time I'll keep looking for a decent migratory tool - for now ... its me :(

I have just upgraded my web site from 1.5.25 to 2.5 using jUpgrade and it works well.

In fact I met nearly every issue mentioned in the jUpgrade forum, see http://redcomponent.com/forum/92-jupgrade, but thanks to the answers provided in the forum, I have been able to overcome them all.
A "jUpgrade for Dummies" guide would be very useful. But I guess volunteers are needed here :-)

Thank you very much for this very helpful extension. It is very, very useful. It is clear that many people are frustrated by the amount of work needed during migration, -it took me 3 evenings, ie about 10 hours, to complete migration- but I guess this cannot be avoided if you have a customized web site.

The most important item that helped me was to remove everything specific (specific modules or plugins) that I use on top of Joomla 1.5 before migrating. I have re-installed them afterwards.

Thanks again,
Alexis

So I select joomla 1.7 in the options and the darn thing proceeds downloading and installing Molajo. Molajo? Who the hell asked for Molajo? It's not even in the options.

Don't use it on a live site.

I don't know if there is a change to the latest version that has caused jUpgrade to start failing, but I also did not have any luck with it. More importantly, I would caution those who might use it for these reasons:

1) When you change the "parameters", there is a bug in that they don't save properly - for example, i changed the table prefix and directory path. I ran the upgrade and it used the "old" settings. I closed out, ran it again and it used the "new" settings so there is a problem with the parameters settings.

2) Most importantly, what JUpgrade does not warn you about is that it puts all the "new tables" into the existing database. I wish it had warned me of that - now my legacy database is muddled with a bunch of new tables and I had to restore my site/db.

3) And of course the final piece - it simply did not work. None of the articles, sections, categories, etc came over. It pretty much failed all the way around yet gave no errors or other warnings.

This is an unreliable/buggy extension to say the least.

And the site I attempted to use this on was VERY vanilla. Not a single 3rd party extension - was literally just a plain 1.5 site with articles.

This extension worked as intended. I read through a lot of the mixed reviews and just wanted to chime in.

There were a few problems getting everything working, but that was my fault. I would highly recommend reading the documentation and creating an upgrade plan before getting started.

The first issue is to make sure that if you're coming 1.5.x that you upgrade to 1.5.25. Second, if you want automatically migrate extensions, make sure the currently installed versions are 2.5 compatible. CB and Kunena are good examples of extensions that can be installed in 1.5.25 and automatically migrated to the new 2.5 site. Interestingly, I thought CB would have issues, but the 1.7 version core functionality appears to be working correctly in the new 2.5 site. In other cases, you might have to go to 1.7 first since it seems that many extensions are 1.7/2.5 compatible.

I still have a lot of work to do, but this extension definitely made my life a lot easier. Thanks and great job!

Good job, I'm new with jooomla, i made 3 different sites in jommla 1.6 and 1.7. I couldn't collect all my article in one site unless i used a 1.5 joomla extension. This extension help me to upgrade to joomla 2.5.

I also found this to be highly recommended, but after using it I'm simply annoyed and disappointed.

There are so many things utterly broken by this. For example all my categories are present, but do not work.

If I choose category blog as a menu item and choose a migrated category, the site 404s. If I create a new category and choose that category, it's fine. That means I have to go through and recreate all the categories, but they're right there.

Weblinks required I went through each category and open and save (with changing nothing) to make them work and put them all the links back into their categories.

I almost think I would have been better off learning how to manually migrate the site, because what I'm left with is a migration that transferred very little and of the stuff it did transfer most of it is quite broken and useless.

I cannot understand why people are complaining so much about this extension.
It seems that many of them just don't understand how difficult it is to transfer all data from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 2.5.
In my opinion this extension manage this task perfectly.
Of course if you are expecting to have all data, extensions and templates transferred with just a one click, you may be disappointed.
But if it is clear for you that it needs a bit more work than one or two clicks, you'll be happy with this extension.

I think we should be very thankful for all the hard work Matias put in this component.

promissing more that it do
after sepending time to register and validating registration and then installing and then getting a drink and back to work
nothing
not working

I have to give this an Excellent because of the amount of time it ultimately saved me. However there was an issue that was not properly handled with this extension:

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All tables must have the collation of utf8_general_ci , and all applicable columns within those tables must have that collation as well.
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The jUpgrade script should alter the talbes and columns for you, maybe that could be a future update? Before I changed all tables to that collation I was able to go through the upgrade process, however it did not pull over menu items or extension positions. So I changed the collation, ran it again, and everything worked perfectly.

Two things that I was very displeased with:
-Asking for my address on registration
-Sending back my password in plaintext (which means they store it in plaintext)

I'm using every release of this component of the beginning. Every.

I learned all the fixes i could have; i have a basic Joomla! installation with a very few but popular components:

Joomla! 1.5.25; CB; Akeeba Backup; Uddeim; etc.


Guy, your component doesn't work. It's easy as this: when i finally get the migration, ony with a few of your releases, it has full of fixes to do and it's simply annoying (and boring).

But, why you don't advise here that the component CHANGES the id's of the articles, doing a nightmare with internal and external links? with comments who now links to different articles?

I'm sure that Joomla! promote this upgrade component because they can't promote a commercial one, but this component works mabye for a blog in Joomla!, or smaller communities, but for sites like mine with more than 2500 articles it's worst than start from the scratch, really -i don't wanna talk about the template issues...-.

I readed all the hints, tricks, tested, in the new recomponent forum of JUpgrade, and i'm very sorry for this review, because i know it's free and you are adding it to help the community, but the real thing today is -i've tested again the x.25 release- that it doesn't work. I'm gonna test the SPUpgrade, and a I recommend everybody don't use this component, just look in the support forum and the joomla! forum with 90% with the SAME unsolved problems.

I'm sorry. But it's my tested review, tired of trying to make it works.

After haven been recomended to me, I tried on a backup installation (done with akeeba). The component installes without problems. I tried the migration to Joomla 2.5 (from .1.5.25). As already mentioned here, the installation of 2.5 ist installed in a subdirectory rather than made a fresh installation. I could go into the admin of Joomla 2.5, which is a new URL (google will hate that) but front page was broken. As the update also creates new tables instead of overwriting the old ones the database looks pretty messy after that.
It probably works fine if you want to migrate simple Joomla pages, but definately does have its bugs if you try to migrate complex websites.

The component is great and work very well. But please can you make something like SPUpgrade not change the article id's.

Same id's- Why is this so important?

Google ranking is not affected
No broken internal links (e.g. within your articles)
No broken external links. Those are links from other domains to your site

After hours of researching and backing up before a migration to J2.5, following all the myriad directions online that all say the same thing - use this tool - I was absolutely THRILLED to see - nothing.

I followed all the directions, and the "update" process won't even begin. When I sought help on the forum, I got a response that the problem is MooTools, not them (of COURSE), and I should "install" the plugin I'd already mentioned I had activated.

The litany of other complaints below show I am far from alone in my problems with this component.
Don't waste your time! Avoid the migraine! Do a manual migration.

Registered for the redComponent at http://redcomponent.com. Received a registration email. Verification link was broken. Guess we'll have to wait for the geniuses at redComponent to fix their stuff.

It wouldn't work at all in Khepri revamped template. Using original Khepri, it wouldn't download J1.7.3 and wouldn't unpack a previously downloaded J1.7.3 zip file locally. I gave up.