jUpgrade 
Version
2.5.1 (last update on Mar 7, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
163
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
19 March 2010
Uses Updater?
- Yes
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
- Joomla 1.6 is not an upgrade to Joomla 1.5 - it is a MIGRATION. Please check the information on docs.joomla.org prior to starting the process.
of Joomla 2.5, decompress it and install it. After that, it should
migrate all of the data from old Joomla 1.5 to the new Joomla 2.5
installation.
The steps to test it
1) Install the component in your Joomla 1.5 site.
2) Run the upgrade
Requirements
* PHP 5.x
* Curl module of PHP enabled
* Joomla 1.5
* Enable System - Mootools Upgrade plugin that is included in Joomla 1.5.19 and greater.
* A Browser with Javascript/Mootools support
Video Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAufYW9SBm8
A new tracker is created for jUpgrade and Joomla 2.5 migrations bugs. You can access (and use it) here:
http://forge.joomla.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemBrowse&tracker_id=10539
Debugging:
If you have problems with migrations please go to Settings and set "Debug" = ON.
The way to test it:
1) remove ROOT/tmp/joomla25.zip and ROOT/tmp/size.tmp
2) remove ROOT/jupgrade directory
3) delete all j17_ tables (except j16_jupgrade_categories and j16_jupgrade_menus)
4) REMOVE OLD jUpgrade installation and install the version 2.5
5) Set "Skip download" to 'No'
6) F5 to reload the browser
7) Run upgrade
After following and testing this tool again and again till the 'stable' version I am very disappointed with the final results. The menu item ID's and the category ID's simply changed, even with 'Keep original positions' checked. Also many aliases changed.
Our website is huge and contains thousands of internal links and hundreds of external sites link to our articles.
The result of the migrating process with jUpgrade is very sad. Yes, all the content seems to be there, but many things are mixed up and most of the internal links are broken or point to wrong items. Many links from external sites result in 404 errors, etc...
Fixing all the problems manually is an impossible job.
I asked for support with a serious proposal to pay for it. No reply at all.
Fortunately someone gave me a golden tip to an alternative solution : sp upgrade
It took me less than an hour to migrate our entire site to 1.6. No errors at all, fast and straightforward. All ID's are kept intact. Friendly and fast support. Well worth the 20 euros for this piece of magic.
Our website is huge and contains thousands of internal links and hundreds of external sites link to our articles.
The result of the migrating process with jUpgrade is very sad. Yes, all the content seems to be there, but many things are mixed up and most of the internal links are broken or point to wrong items. Many links from external sites result in 404 errors, etc...
Fixing all the problems manually is an impossible job.
I asked for support with a serious proposal to pay for it. No reply at all.
Fortunately someone gave me a golden tip to an alternative solution : sp upgrade
It took me less than an hour to migrate our entire site to 1.6. No errors at all, fast and straightforward. All ID's are kept intact. Friendly and fast support. Well worth the 20 euros for this piece of magic.
Managed to make it complete the upgrade eventually by downloading and uncompressing v1.6 manually.
The component managed to successfully upgrade anything that was connected to the core of Joomla (Articles, Users etc.) but failed miserably at migrating my template, extra components and modules.
The component managed to successfully upgrade anything that was connected to the core of Joomla (Articles, Users etc.) but failed miserably at migrating my template, extra components and modules.
Tried to run the module several times. First it got stuck after downloading Joomla 1.6 – to get past that point I had to setup the module to skip download…then the installation came a few steps further but now it’s stuck with upgrading progress – migrating undefined its saying in the progress bar.
Imo to many errors that should have been debugged before released to end users.
Will reinstall my backup and try another tool even though this is the one suggested by joomla org. when upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6.
Imo to many errors that should have been debugged before released to end users.
Will reinstall my backup and try another tool even though this is the one suggested by joomla org. when upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6.
I have done some migrations in my time, but this tool promises to be the easiest one I've ever used. Currently I am waiting on a stable version of it where it seems that the tool isn't quite there yet.
I tried updating a web running joomla 1.5.22 on Centos LAMP server, using the current version of JUpgrade (1.0.1) and it manages to download Joomla 1.6, but does nothing more.
I've found nothing in the components documentation which could explain this problem, but as we know, if one of us is having problems, there are more out there.
I know that the guys at Matware, along with some of joomla's most apt developers are working on creating the best migration tool out there, and for that effort I give them my thanks.
I will be following this tool and I will check out the next version. Hopefully it will be usable by that time ;)
I tried updating a web running joomla 1.5.22 on Centos LAMP server, using the current version of JUpgrade (1.0.1) and it manages to download Joomla 1.6, but does nothing more.
I've found nothing in the components documentation which could explain this problem, but as we know, if one of us is having problems, there are more out there.
I know that the guys at Matware, along with some of joomla's most apt developers are working on creating the best migration tool out there, and for that effort I give them my thanks.
I will be following this tool and I will check out the next version. Hopefully it will be usable by that time ;)
I was trying to make something like jUpgrade myself, but I stopped the development when I found this extension.
First step you should do . . . read the documentation! Next step . . . read it again and make sure you understand it!
Afterwards I installed it, executed it, and my site was up and running in Joomla 1.6, with the functionality of the standard 1.6 core. And this all in the first attempt. The extension does what it supposed to do.
Things I had to do by myself was, creating new 1.6 template and install plugins I used in 1.5.22 (for which some of them are not yet available for 1.6).
First step you should do . . . read the documentation! Next step . . . read it again and make sure you understand it!
Afterwards I installed it, executed it, and my site was up and running in Joomla 1.6, with the functionality of the standard 1.6 core. And this all in the first attempt. The extension does what it supposed to do.
Things I had to do by myself was, creating new 1.6 template and install plugins I used in 1.5.22 (for which some of them are not yet available for 1.6).
Well it worked after a few attempts and a bit of a play around. I found removing some of the plugins I had installed in 1.5 helped in the end.
Just remember to make sure you have 1.6 versions of any extentions before you run the migration. Nothing worse than finding you can't run your favourite extention as its not compatable.
BACK UP SITE AND DATABASE BEFORE YOU RUN.
Now this migration script IS the best free one out there and does work. It took me a few attempts and a bit of playing around so please be patient.
With a bit more development it can and will be as good as the paid ones. However, its not for the faint hearted users. I would say the developer has done a great job so far as the migration is not the easiest of things to achieve.
Just remember to make sure you have 1.6 versions of any extentions before you run the migration. Nothing worse than finding you can't run your favourite extention as its not compatable.
BACK UP SITE AND DATABASE BEFORE YOU RUN.
Now this migration script IS the best free one out there and does work. It took me a few attempts and a bit of playing around so please be patient.
With a bit more development it can and will be as good as the paid ones. However, its not for the faint hearted users. I would say the developer has done a great job so far as the migration is not the easiest of things to achieve.
When attempting a conversion with the 0.5.5-3 release I only managed to transfer 1 out of over 100 articles.
Reasoning that the component HAS to work, I tried a prior release - 0.5.5 transferred half my articles. Finally, I used 0.5.4. This transferred all the articles correctly.
There will be NO home page, just a 404 if your home page was originally a blog listing. Only menu links to specific articles will still work. All other blog menu links will have to be rebuilt.
This has saved me a very great deal of effort - many thanks! ( Building a new template is not very hard really either - if you could build the old ones !)
Reasoning that the component HAS to work, I tried a prior release - 0.5.5 transferred half my articles. Finally, I used 0.5.4. This transferred all the articles correctly.
There will be NO home page, just a 404 if your home page was originally a blog listing. Only menu links to specific articles will still work. All other blog menu links will have to be rebuilt.
This has saved me a very great deal of effort - many thanks! ( Building a new template is not very hard really either - if you could build the old ones !)
I think it should be developed more matured level. It is unbelievable disasterous component. Be careful and just try and fail on a dummy site how it doesn't work rather than a live site. I made this mistake, you don't.
Regards..
Regards..
Owner's reply
"Joomla 1.6 is not an upgrade to Joomla 1.5 - it is a MIGRATION. Please check the information on docs.joomla.org prior to starting the process."
You should have read this before.
I could not get 1.6 to install on my latest installation. It would error on the database install portion. I read on the forum that several people had used this extension to get around that issue. So I installed 1.5.22, installed jUpgrade and ran it and within seconds I had a functioning 1.6 site. Couldn't be easier, thanks for a great product. I'm not sure what the results would be in a site with a lot of content, I don't think it would be as seamless, but even if it did part of the work of migrating a site to 1.6, it would be worth it.
Ran the installation.
It reached the end, saying that everything was in order, however:
- Users were not imported, thus it's impossible to login
- There were some problems with sessions, because we're using memcached
But it looks promising. The installation progress is easy to follow. I would suggest using green colour coding when a step is successfully completed.
It reached the end, saying that everything was in order, however:
- Users were not imported, thus it's impossible to login
- There were some problems with sessions, because we're using memcached
But it looks promising. The installation progress is easy to follow. I would suggest using green colour coding when a step is successfully completed.
This component is very easy to use and it has great potential. I tried it in a test server and it managed to migrate most of the elements, although it didn't migrate several important things such as aliases (in everything), contents of custom HTML modules, etc.
However, with a little more effort, it could set an example to migration scripts.
However, with a little more effort, it could set an example to migration scripts.
Brilliant - installed it and within minutes I was able to start playing around with 1.6. the back end (of 1.6) was good, and I was able to see all the new very impressive features.
Templates - and a few other things not yet fully included in the migrate so the front end templates weren't fully functioning.
The previous 1.5 installation was left intact.
Had none of the problems that other reviewers have complained about and will definitely be looking out for the updates as they come along.
Templates - and a few other things not yet fully included in the migrate so the front end templates weren't fully functioning.
The previous 1.5 installation was left intact.
Had none of the problems that other reviewers have complained about and will definitely be looking out for the updates as they come along.
In testing this migration utility, it works flawlessly, AS LONG AS you haven't changed your table prefixes in the database, as is recommended for security reason. If your DB table prefixes are jos_, it works fine, but anything else and it appears that it worked, but the new tables are mostly empty, with none of your data.
I'm sure that once a stable release is available this will be fixed.
I'm sure that once a stable release is available this will be fixed.
Downloaded and installed just fine. Hit upgrade button. Did its thing. Said that it was succesfull. New 1.6 login screen was there but went to log in and it changed my password to who know what. Had to reset my password. Logged back in to a joomla 1.5.22 version. Still needs work.
Thanks anyways
Thanks anyways
This is a fantastic extension that installs quickly, and has a simple and slick interface.
I have used Matias Aguirre's jUpgrade for many sites from 1.0 to 1.5. I am very happy this is ready when 1.6 launched. I am looking forward to seeing third-party component support.
I have used Matias Aguirre's jUpgrade for many sites from 1.0 to 1.5. I am very happy this is ready when 1.6 launched. I am looking forward to seeing third-party component support.
From downloading and unzipping to through the entire upgrade process, this program worked! I did exactly what the instructions advised. After installing into my Joomla 1.5.21 production-server installation, I ran the jUpgrade component and everything ran as advertised.
You KNOW you are going to have issues with templates for 1.6 so don't expect your paid professional templates to work without major tweaking.
But after finishing, I have access to the admin section and existing content which was my biggest concern (ie, no database problems)
This program is an EXCELLENT choice for users who want to test out the new joomla1.6!!!
You KNOW you are going to have issues with templates for 1.6 so don't expect your paid professional templates to work without major tweaking.
But after finishing, I have access to the admin section and existing content which was my biggest concern (ie, no database problems)
This program is an EXCELLENT choice for users who want to test out the new joomla1.6!!!
I just tested it on a plain vanilla install and it works very well! :-)
It does exactly what it says, however it can use a bit more documentation. Then again, the documentation really is not needed as it is a very simple process: install and run.
The developer looks like he is very good at doing what he does, so I look forward to good things from this extension!
It does exactly what it says, however it can use a bit more documentation. Then again, the documentation really is not needed as it is a very simple process: install and run.
The developer looks like he is very good at doing what he does, so I look forward to good things from this extension!
I know jUpgrade is still in development, but it fails miserably on my hosting. :-(
There needs to be more output from the extension as to what it is failing on to aid user feedback!
With the first RC of Joomla 1.6 for early adopters possibly imminent (possibly 29th November), I wonder if this extension will be ready for the occasion, or as said the author has commented, it won't be stable until 1.6 stable is released.
There needs to be more output from the extension as to what it is failing on to aid user feedback!
With the first RC of Joomla 1.6 for early adopters possibly imminent (possibly 29th November), I wonder if this extension will be ready for the occasion, or as said the author has commented, it won't be stable until 1.6 stable is released.
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