Upgrading from 3.9.1 on Joomla 2.5 to current version on Joomla 3
By Cindy Beal on Saturday, 11 July 2015
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Hi, I am currently migrating from a Joomla 2.5 website running EasyBlog 3.9.1 over to a Joomla 3.0 with the latest version of easy blog.

Should I update my 2.5 version to the latest easy blog and then export the SQL easy blog database and import into the new website? If not, what is the best way to approach this?
Hi Nina Kate,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

Yes, what David say is true also.

In my suggestion, you should update your Easyblog 3.9 version to 3.9.24862 (this is last version in Easyblog 3.9) in your Joomla 2.5.

After that create an export dump through phpmyadmin and export the tables over. Here's the general guideline that you could use and it is also what we used previously when we migrated from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.x.

*Backup your data first before perform migration
*Migrate all the Joomla 2.5 user to Joomla 3.x first using 3rd party extension (make sure all the user id is same as Joomla 2.5)
*Don't Install Easyblog in your new site.

1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. Make a sql dump for all the tables that has the prefix of #__easyblog_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses the same prefix , then you can skip this part. However, if you are using a different database prefix, you'll need to edit the .sql file that you've just downloaded, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.
5. Open your PHPMyAdmin and this time, open up your new site's database.
6. You should see an import link at the top. Click on that, and click on browse. Select the .sql file and click the run import button.
Note : 7. Install the latest EasyBlog 3.9 on your new site Joomla 3.x

**migrate additional - if your blog post have including the image file, you have to do this step as well.
That was to copy over the image and media files associated with EasyBlog (e.g. the "/images/easyblog_avatar", "/images/easyblog_images", "/images/easyblog_shared", and the "/media/com_easyblog" folders and all of their contents).

After you done above all the step and successfully migrated, try test around on your frontpage Easyblog data and see is it everything migrated? If yes, you can download the Easyblog 5 launcher installer from http://stackideas.com/dashboard then install from your Joomla installer.

If you need the latest version of Easyblog 3.9, can you provide us with your email address so I can send the installer for you. because the older version of Easyblog 3.9 can't be download from dashboard now.

Hope this help.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 11 July 2015 12:23
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While I can't recommend a process, I do HIGHLY recommend creating a full site backup!! Either through your host's tools (cPanel has a pretty good backup system if your host enabled it for free; otherwise I've seen some hosts charge for that feature), or with Akeeba Backup.
David Montoya
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Saturday, 11 July 2015 09:08
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Thanks for your response. I already installed the ner 3.9 version on my new Joomla 3.0 platform. Should I uninstall it and then follow your directions above?
Cindy Beal
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Monday, 13 July 2015 00:15
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Hello Nina,

Yes, you should uninstall it first and remove all the easyblog tables from your database. Then, import all the Easyblog tables from the old site and install the latest Easyblog 3.9.
Nik Faris
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Monday, 13 July 2015 10:55
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Ouch, this just broke my current working site. I did a MySQL bu right before doing this install. I tried to reinstall the SQL database back up afterwards, but the site is now still broken.

I've had to take it offline. I'm getting this:

Warning: require_once(/home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/constants.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/helpers/helper.php on line 22

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/constants.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/helpers/helper.php on line 22
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:21
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UGH, I have deleted and reinstalled a back up of my original files and SQL from June 26 and I cannot get around this error message:

Warning: require_once(/home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/constants.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/helpers/helper.php on line 22

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/constants.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/21/7989221/html/components/com_easyblog/helpers/helper.php on line 22


Please help, this is now critical.
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:27
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Hey Nina,

This is a common problem if you have 3rd party modules installed which still relies on EasyBlog 3.9 files. Nevertheless, can you try renaming the file /plugins/user/easyblogusers/ and see if that helps?

Is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue?
Mark
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:33
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First off, what I'm dealing with now is my original 2.5.14 website. I tried to upgrade as suggested above and it broke everything. So I completely deleted my files and the uploaded the back up along with it's back up SQL database. Why would it not just work as before?

I can give you access to the back end, but it's just a white screen with those error messages on it. I think you'll need FTP access.
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:47
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while you're fixing the old version, can you upgrade to the latest version so I can export to my Joomla 3.0 site?
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:49
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Hey Nina,

Which folder on the ftp is housing the site? I tried making some changes on /administrator/index.php via ftp but it doesn't have any effect.
Mark
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:04
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You should have FTP access to the root folder, lcanimal.org.

This is a subfolder, as there are several other websites hosted on this account. This is on a GoDaddy server which I suspect may be part of the problem. Do you need access to the public_html folder? please advise
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:10
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I just looked at the file folder and you are definitly in the right one. I can see that the index.php in administrator file was updated a few moments ago.
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:13
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Here's my question though, since the errors are occuring on the helper.php page of easybog, isn't that the one you should be fixing?
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:31
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The helper directory no longer exists in the latest version.
David Montoya
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:36
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Hey Nina,

The problem is the site is complaining that the file doesn't exist on the site but the file is actually there. I wonder if Godaddy's cache is acting up?
Mark
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:38
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I'm trying something else with GoDaddy. Stand by.
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:57
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OK, so I've been working on restoring this all day. It turns out that I was originally working on the back end from the wrong place. That said, while it now works, it still seems to be missing some files. Is there a way to get a copy of version 3.9.14919 so that I can reinstall it? please advise asap.

From the back end, whenever I go to authors or custom fields, it gives me a 500 error. I don't know if this is something that the new version left behind or I am missing from the old version. I've added the correct FTP information for you.

I still need to upgrade this to the latest version, but frankly, I'm afraid to try it again, given what happened last time. What do you suggest? I still need to get these files into Joomla 3.0

Thank you
Cindy Beal
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 10:50
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Hi Nina Kate,

May I know, have you setup your development/temporary site for this update? If you do, can you please give us access to this dev site so that we can proceed updating your site. If you don't, I am advising you to create a temporary site so that we can migrate the existing site to the new site while we update the original site to the latest. This is a precaution steps so that we can refer back to the original site as a reference.

Please advise.
Yasser Ibrahim
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 11:55
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Hi again:
Finally back with everything set up on a dev platform. Please see the details for login. I've got everything working appropriately. I managed to do the upgrade this time without breaking everything. Working on the export and import to Joomla 3.0. I'll be back in touch if I need help still.

thank you.
Cindy Beal
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015 05:23
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SUCCESS! Thank you and we can mark this SOLVED!
Cindy Beal
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015 09:22
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Hi Nina Kate,

Thanks for getting back to us your migration successfully !

Hope you have a nice day
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015 09:55
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