When I created my main Joomla! site, I installed Joomla! using Fantastico, as described in this post.
However, I set that site up in a temporary folder while my original site was still running on HTML. When I finished the Joomla! site, I backed up the site (using JoomlaPack, now changing names to Akeeba Backup), deleted the original site and extracted the backed-up site in the correct folder.
The problem with this way of setting up a site and copying it to another location is that Fantastico loses the connection with it, i.e. you won't see the copied site in Fantastico. This also means you will need to upgrade manually instead of using Fantastico's upgrade feature.
I hadn't upgraded Joomla! since version 1.5.15, and needed to upgrade it to the latest version, which is at the moment of this post version 1.5.17.
Luckily, when you are using cPanel, manually upgrading is peanuts!
- Backup your site and download the backup file
- Go to the Joomla! download page and download the desired upgrade package
- Open cPanel and go to File Manager
- In the root of your Joomla! installation, upload the package file using the Upload button
- When the file is uploaded, right click on the file and select Extract
- The extraction will overwrite the necessary files, and your Joomla! install will be upgraded!
- Remember to delete the uploaded file
It's as simple as that!
The only problem now is that, if you have made any changes in Joomla! proprietary files, these may have overwritten, and these changes will have to be made again. In the next post, I will describe one of these changes in more detail.
Happy upgrading!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Robin Roelofsen
"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."
Jaron Lanier
