Update from 5.7.5.6 to 5.7.5.7, This should be easy, right?

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Dashboard/System & Settings/Environment: Core Version - 5.7.5.6, Version Installed - 5.7.5.6
Dashboard/Systems & Settings/Update: Check For Updates = No updates are ready to be installed.

I downloaded the new zip, expanded, removed everything but the concrete folder, moved the concrete5.7.5.7 parent folder and concrete subfolder (et. all) to the updates folder = same.

Tried index.php/ccm/system/upgrade and it said: Your site is already up to date! The current version of concrete5 is 5.7.5.6.

Suggestions?

 
blinkdesign replied on at Permalink Reply
blinkdesign
try a manual update with mesuva's instructions:
http://documentation.concrete5.org/tutorials/how-to-manually-upgrad...
sofc replied on at Permalink Reply
sofc
Thx, nice video but it did not work for me either.
First I tried to upload the concrete folder in /updates, as it did not work I tried this approach. I could not figure out how to unzip in Filezilla when uploaded, so I just move the folder from the update folder to directly under public...
I go to the link provided in the video for my site of course and get this error:

"An exception occurred while executing 'select count(cID) from MultilingualSections': SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'sofc_earth_db.MultilingualSections' doesn't exist "

Any ideas?
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply
mesuva
The instructions in that video should still be current. I've done the 5.7.5.7 upgrade to about six sites in the last few days using those exact steps.

That sounds like you may have been visiting the wrong upgrade URL. Make sure you are going to: /index.php/ccm/system/upgrade on your site.

The error message suggests that you have sucessfully replaced the concrete folder, but actual upgrade process (which would create that missing table) haven't been triggered.
TLCary replied on at Permalink Reply
In a broader sense, the fact that this was once "one-click" built in functionality that has been left broken for years, is an argument that C5 isn't "ready for prime-time". The positioning of C5 in the spectrum of CMS systems is towards the ease of use. Having to wade through this level of manual mucking about behind the scenes just to do an update is the opposite of ease. Worse yet, there is no longer a complete documentation but rather a collection of 'try this' blog posts and videos that you might be able to find by spending time asking and waiting and hoping for an answer. That isn't the coherent documentation that it once had. How are things sliding backwards and being left for so many years?
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply 3 Attachments
mesuva
I just tried updating a site using the automated updated and it worked great.
It told me there was an update available, a click then downloaded it. Then it checked for any potential issues/conflicts. After another click and a few moments the upgrade was complete. See attached screenshots.

So the one-click (ok, two or three click) automatic upgrade is certainly still there and working as expected.

The 'manual' approach to updating is really just another way that the upgrade can be performed, you certainly don't have to upgrade this way.

Keep in mind that when a concrete5 release is made, it doesn't immediately get released to to the auto-updater. You can download and use it, and do manual upgrades to it, but it gets left a bit before being released to everyone.

So perhaps you're thinking it's broken because you can't see 5.7.5.7 yet in the auto-updater process.
sofc replied on at Permalink Reply
sofc
Hi

I did try both the main site and ... /index.php/ccm/system/upgrade

I had the concrete_new from the upgraded folder, which did not work either.

I recall that my host talked about changing the the server php7 version because the 1-click installed an older version, so it was downgraded, I have tried to upgrade again to php7, but no luck.
sofc replied on at Permalink Reply
sofc
Well I tried to install manually the new version instead:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/install-c5v8...