if i were you i would take a look at akeebabackup.com

Hello William

No i haven't restored my site before. I'll take backup of my site.
I will send you a detailed mail of my query :) .

Warm Regards
Shiv

Have you restored your site before?
I would put the site on localhost and test it before doing it on the live site
If you need help see my profile and email me

I have a huge site running in joomla 1.5.2 with K2 v2.3

I need to upgrade my joomla version to Joomla! 2.5.9 and K2 v2.6.5

Is there a way i can export all my items align with galleries from k2 2.3 to my new and fresh K2 2.6.5??

Hello William,
Thanks for your quick response.
Right now I am using K2's v2.4.1 and my joomla version is 1.5.23. Also now i want to upgrade my joomla 1.5 site to 2.5 version. So,
* still is it necessary to upgrade my joomla 1.5 to latest version and then to 2.5 or i can directly do it from 1.5 to 2.5 ???
No, i take my backup through filezilla. Never used Akeeba.

* Though i will try to follow all your step but just in case my upgradation fails then can i re-upload the backup-ed data to the domain to make my site running as before??

Thanks
Shiv

Backup your site First! Do Not uninstall K2
Update joomla to the latest 1.5 version
Goto K2 control panel and scroll to the bottom. You should see the k2 version number there
Since there have been lots of changes in it would be best to know what version of k2 you have and what version you want to go to before proceeding
Backup Backup Backup.....do you use akeeba?
their support for 1.5 has ended but i think the compatiable files are still available akeebabackup.com

Joomla Version is 1.5.23 and for backup we manually take it with the help of filezilla. I don' t know the current K2 version

Thanks
Shiv

what versions of k2 and joomla are you currently using?
what are you using for backup?

Hello Everyone,

I have Joomla 1.5 platform and using k2 for joomla 1.5. Now I want to ask that can we upgrade "ONLY K2" to 2.x series by just keeping my platform at joomla 1.5.

Is there any way to do so. I searched a lot but no solution.
Help Required Urgently.


Thanks.
Shiv240

Extract a k2 to a local folder.
All the files in the directories there will be overwritten on upgrade.
YourSiteRoot/templates/YourTemplateName/html/......
is the proper place for overrides and they will not be overwritten when you upgrade k2
similarly you can override the k2 modules in the html dir of your template and they will survive upgrade
Any changes you make to the core files will be overwritten.
Do not uninstall K2 unless you want the k2 tables for categories, users, items, etc to be deleted

Even though your files still exist, there may be changes to the override files that need to be made. Keep check on the blog entries for the last few releases. There is a link to the override files and you can do a diff on them to see the changes

I would like to understand what the potential impact of editing certain K2 xml files is when upgrading to a newer version of K2. (Note this question might apply to all other Joomla extensions in general)

For example, lets say I made an addition to the administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.xml file. If I upgraded to a newer version of K2 could it be possible that my changes are overwritten by the upgrade?

I understand that if I make changes to any php files in the /components/com_k2 directory that these can be overwritten. But does the same apply to xml files or css files such as k2.css? What about if they are in my template directory such as:

<joomla_root>/theme/html/com_k2/templates/MYNEWTEMPLATE

Can I assume that anything there will not be affected by an upgrade?

mysite\templates\beez_20\html\com_k2\golfcourses\golfcourses_style.css

should be
mysite\templates\beez_20\html\com_k2\templates\golfcourses\golfcourses_style.css

Hi, I have just upgraded from 2.6.2 to 2.6.5 and the template does not seem to work. I think i have the template set up correctly

mysite\templates\beez_20\html\com_k2\golfcourses\golfcourses_style.css

The k2 categories are all set up to use the template golfcourses, I thought the upgrade would automatically pick up the styling from the golfcourses template but it seems that is not the case.

This is my first k2 update and would think I have missed something, when I check in firebug there is no sign of the css file golfcourses_style.css being used.

I have similar problem I upgrade the apache from Apache/2.0.6 to Apache 2.5 and i get many errrors, so i downgrade it again to 2.0.6 but the sites which has k2 are not loaded. Although the /administrator/ is accessible but i can't save k2 item, when i save one item i get white page.

Do i have to enable any apache setting?

Hi Peter,


I upgraded K2 to the newer version 2.6 after much fiddling with permissions and such, and now there is a media manager.


Thanks for your all your help!


Best regards,

Sander

Hi Peter


Thanks for your continued help, I really much appreciate it. However, I still cannot find the K2 media manager. I've attached a screenshot of the K2 control panel as it shows up on my website.

It seems to have fallen through somehow, is there a way to reach it other than by clicking the button (link)?

Perhaps I'll have to upgrade K2 anyway..


Sander

Hello

I've been searching for this but maybe I haven't used the right keywords because I cannot find a solution.

On my website, I cannot add images to the gallery. If I do, they automatically replace the existing gallery, even though I have not checked the checkbox "check this if you want to delete image gallery or if you want to upload an image replacing the existing gallery".

Has this been a bug in a previous version of K2? I'm probably not using the latest version and I'm reluctant to upgrade because the client doesn't want to.


Regards,


Sander

Hi,

I'm losing my mind here and need some help.

I just updated from version 2.5.7 to 2.6.5. Under 2.5.7, I had successfully been able to make site-wide changes to CSS by putting updated files in components/com_k2/css. After the upgrade and making conforming edits in the new k2.css file, copying my (now edited) k2.css into that same folder has no effect on the site.

An example would be trying to remove the 'zebra' background stripes on a k2 content module. I've specified "background:none !important" in k2.css, though the background continues to show. When I look with Firebug, it shows "background: none", from k2.css -- yet when I click on that line the background actually disappears. I had also made other changes in the css file for this module, none of which are reflected. You can see an example in the "recent recipes" module on my home page: www.freedible.com.

I have also tried doing this the *right* way as I understand it (putting the k2.css file in /templates/MYTEMPLATE/css), also to no avail. I am using RocketTheme's Metropolis template if that makes a difference, and likewise I tried to follow the steps for implementing this on a per-category basis using k24css -- but that didn't work either. Any ideas what I'm missing???

Thanks very much,
Cheryl

i did the migration from the beginning again and this time completely manually. (without using SP upgrade for the database).

but i have the same error.

i even cant save any k2 content/items/tags....
there is following error:

TableK2Category: :store fehlgeschlagen!
Unknown column 'language' in 'field list' SQL=UPDATE `ug25_k2_categories` SET `name`='Skillgames',`alias`='skillgames',`description`='',`parent`='0',`extraFieldsGroup`='1',`published`='1',`access`='1',`params`='{\"inheritFrom\":\"0\",\"theme\":\"\",\"num_leading_items\":\"2\",\"num_leading_columns\":\"1\",\"leadingImgSize\":\"Large\",\"num_primary_items\":\"4\",\"num_primary_columns\":\"2\",\"primaryImgSize\":\"Medium\",\"num_secondary_items\":\"4\",\"num_secondary_columns\":\"1\",\"secondaryImgSize\":\"Small\",\"num_links\":\"4\",\"num_links_columns\":\"1\",\"linksImgSize\":\"XSmall\",\"catCatalogMode\":\"0\",\"catFeaturedItems\":\"1\",\"catOrdering\":\"\",\"catPagination\":\"2\",\"catPaginationResults\":\"1\",\"catTitle\":\"1\",\"catTitleItemCounter\":\"1\",\"catDescription\":\"1\",\"catImage\":\"1\",\"catFeedLink\":\"1\",\"catFeedIcon\":\"1\",\"subCategories\":\"1\",\"subCatColumns\":\"2\",\"subCatOrdering\":\"\",\"subCatTitle\":\"1\",\"subCatTitleItemCounter\":\"1\",\"subCatDescription\":\"1\",\"subCatImage\":\"1\",\"itemImageXS\":\"\",\"itemImageS\":\"\",\"itemImageM\":\"\",\"itemImageL\":\"\",\"itemImageXL\":\"\",\"catItemTitle\":\"1\",\"catItemTitleLinked\":\"1\",\"catItemFeaturedNotice\":\"0\",\"catItemAuthor\":\"1\",\"catItemDateCreated\":\"1\",\"catItemRating\":\"0\",\"catItemImage\":\"1\",\"catItemIntroText\":\"1\",\"catItemIntroTextWordLimit\":\"\",\"catItemExtraFields\":\"0\",\"catItemHits\":\"0\",\"catItemCategory\":\"1\",\"catItemTags\":\"1\",\"catItemAttachments\":\"0\",\"catItemAttachmentsCounter\":\"0\",\"catItemVideo\":\"0\",\"catItemVideoWidth\":\"\",\"catItemVideoHeight\":\"\",\"catItemAudioWidth\":\"\",\"catItemAudioHeight\":\"\",\"catItemVideoAutoPlay\":\"0\",\"catItemImageGallery\":\"0\",\"catItemDateModified\":\"0\",\"catItemReadMore\":\"1\",\"catItemCommentsAnchor\":\"1\",\"catItemK2Plugins\":\"1\",\"itemDateCreated\":\"1\",\"itemTitle\":\"1\",\"itemFeaturedNotice\":\"1\",\"itemAuthor\":\"1\",\"itemFontResizer\":\"1\",\"itemPrintButton\":\"1\",\"itemEmailButton\":\"1\",\"itemSocialButton\":\"1\",\"itemVideoAnchor\":\"1\",\"itemImageGalleryAnchor\":\"1\",\"itemCommentsAnchor\":\"1\",\"itemRating\":\"1\",\"itemImage\":\"1\",\"itemImgSize\":\"Large\",\"itemImageMainCaption\":\"1\",\"itemImageMainCredits\":\"1\",\"itemIntroText\":\"1\",\"itemFullText\":\"1\",\"itemExtraFields\":\"1\",\"itemDateModified\":\"1\",\"itemHits\":\"1\",\"itemCategory\":\"1\",\"itemTags\":\"1\",\"itemAttachments\":\"1\",\"itemAttachmentsCounter\":\"1\",\"itemVideo\":\"1\",\"itemVideoWidth\":\"\",\"itemVideoHeight\":\"\",\"itemAudioWidth\":\"\",\"itemAudioHeight\":\"\",\"itemVideoAutoPlay\":\"0\",\"itemVideoCaption\":\"1\",\"itemVideoCredits\":\"1\",\"itemImageGallery\":\"1\",\"itemNavigation\":\"1\",\"itemComments\":\"1\",\"itemTwitterButton\":\"1\",\"itemFacebookButton\":\"1\",\"itemGooglePlusOneButton\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorBlock\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorImage\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorDescription\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorURL\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorEmail\":\"0\",\"itemAuthorLatest\":\"1\",\"itemAuthorLatestLimit\":\"5\",\"itemRelated\":\"1\",\"itemRelatedLimit\":\"5\",\"itemRelatedTitle\":\"1\",\"itemRelatedCategory\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedImageSize\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedIntrotext\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedFulltext\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedAuthor\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedMedia\":\"0\",\"itemRelatedImageGallery\":\"0\",\"itemK2Plugins\":\"1\",\"catMetaDesc\":\"\",\"catMetaKey\":\"\",\"catMetaRobots\":\"\",\"catMetaAuthor\":\"\"}',`language`='*' WHERE `id`='1'

any advice would be great.
thanks.

Unfortunately, this is not a problem with K2 but with Joomla! 3.0. The "canonical" meta tag is reporting the wrong URL for items and it's what Facebook or other social networks obviously put more weight too if your site doesn't utilize their meta tags.

Upgrade to K2 v2.6.5 to trick Facebook for now (as we use the ogp:something meta tags).

But Google won't like that either way.

A quick solution is to kill this meta entirely until it's fixed on Joomla! 3.0.

E.g.
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
unset($document->_links);

at the very top of your template's index.php file (inside a php block obviously)