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- Mohamed Osman
Solved: Upgrade to 2.5.7 with no errors
Category: English K2 Community
it's my first article over here and i wanted to describe how to upgrade your (Powered by k2 ) website
and i already tried this method in a joomla website which have more than 20,000 article in k2 items and it succeed well. so let's go.
* THIS IS A MANUAL WAY TO UPGRADE YOUR K2 COMPONENT AND WE WILL USE MYSQL QUERIES
* REQUIREMENTS:
1)AKEEBA BACKUP [ Download ]
2)ADMIN TOOLS [ Download ]
3)ADMINER 3.6.1 [ Download ]
4)FRESH COPY OF JOOMLA 2.5.7 [ Download ]
5) A CUP OF TEA WILL HELP YOU ;)
* YOU DON'T NEED SO MUCH PROGRAMMING SKILLS TO APPLY THIS TO YOUR SITE BUT I STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO BACKUP YOUR DATABASE AND FILES USING AKEEBA BACKUP AND STAY AWAKE WHILE THE UPGRADE PROCESS.
Firstly : i like to describe the condition
Now you have your old website usually it's a joomla 1.5.25 please upgrade if older
1) go to your old site administrator area and install akeeba backup and admintools via [install/unistall]
2) backup your site using akeeba backup
3) go to [components / admin tools / Database table prefix editor]
4) in the New prefix field write any 3 or 4 digits ( numbers or letters or both ) ends with underscore _ and remember it for example i will use ( os25_ )
5) Create a new empty database using the same username of the old database
6) Go to your website's root directory and create a folder named for example [ Upgraded ]
7) install your fresh copy of joomla 2.5.7 into this directory using database in step [ 1 ] and while installation you will be notified what the New prefix for the new site is, so change it to be the same like your old site.
8) then install k2 component in the fresh copy of joomla.
9) inside the [Upgraded] directory create another directory called [adminer] and upload the adminer files after extracting it from the downloaded archive.
10) access the [adminer] script and you will find it at ( http:www.yoursite.com/Upgraded/adminer ) and enter you [database name,username and password].
11) after successful login you will see in the left area of the adminer script a drop down list contains your databases the old and the new one [this is at least] but ( you may see other databases... just ignore ).
12) choose the new one and select all k2 tables and drop them i]select tables and scroll to the bottom of the page to find a drop button[/i.
13) go to your old database and select all k2 tables and scroll down to find a copy command
- select your new database and press copy.
14) open to your new database ( also using adminer ) and press ( SQL command ) in the left area.
15) you will see a big text area put these command lines below and press execute ( one command line per time )
* Attention
- OLD_ID is the id of the user from the old site ( this may be more than one if so repeat this line for each user ) you can find it in the old site's [user manager] in administrator area.
- NEW_ID is the id of the user from the new site ( this the new fresh site super admin's id ) you can find it in the new fresh site's [user manager] in administrator area too.
- PREFIX is the PREFIX of the tables of the new site it is the same like old as we said.
First command line :-
- theant

24 Oct 2012 12:07 Blank page in articles list in admin after upgrade was created by theant Blank page in articles list in admin after upgrade
Category: English K2 Community
Hello
I'd just upgrade K2 from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 on my J! 2.5.7 site
all seems fine except when I go in administration and select K2 / articles
I get a blank page
any suggestion?
Versione database 5.1.61
Collation database utf8_general_ci
Versione PHP 5.3.3
Web Server Apache
WebServer interfaccia PHP cgi-fcgi
Versione di Joomla! Joomla! 2.5.7 Stable [ Ember ] 13-September-2012 14:00 GMT
Versione piattaforma Joomla! Joomla Platform 11.4.0 Stable [ Brian Kernighan ] 03-Jan-2012 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
- Santiago Laserna
He migrado con jUpgrade pero no K2, ni JCE
Category: Comunidad hispana oficial de K2
El el caso de K2 no se han migrado ni artículos, ni categorías.
¿Alguien me puede acosejar qué hacer?
- Paul Zwarts
Extended Fields not saving anymore
Category: English K2 Community
I just noticed today that my multiselect content in extended fields is no longer saving. I have a field group that has a dropdown, two textedit fields and two multiselect. The other fields are saving, but the multiselect no longer does. It was working a few days ago.
Ive just upgraded to 2.6.1 a few days ago but not sure if this was the culprit.
Ive searched around online but didnt find anything very useful. I did see a k2.js hack which I tried which should do something about field sync, but that didnt help.
Any advice would be appreciated.
p.
- william white
Error with K2 v2.6.0 and new Joomla 2.5.7
Category: English K2 Community
It could be that there is something else causing the problems or captify is partially fixed and needs more work. Give him access to the site, and i feel sure they will be working on it
- jacob
Error with K2 v2.6.0 and new Joomla 2.5.7
Category: English K2 Community
William White wrote: This will not be a popular post.
I think that the problem lies with open source and "free" in general.
All "free" cms and extensions to them are "free" for us to use and change if we like. There are not guarantees for all environments and more especially no guarantees with mixtures of components.
When we rush to upgrade from stable, tested, and fixed versions of the cms or an extension, we become a part of the testing process in some ways. Sometimes components lag way behind the cms release cycle, especially when there is a short term cycle as in 3.0. I still have stable 1.5 with k2 2.4.1 sites running without errors and with addins that cause no problems along with 2.5 sites with k2 2.5.7.
If it doesnt work when i test it, I wait...and do not hack the core (except for testing and bug reporting) and when I as site owner have tested completely, i go live with upgraded software. This can be seen by the advice given by the official joomla site about who should upgrade to 3.0 and also on many of the different dev's sites answering the same question. Things are in a constant state of evolution.
I guess we as site owners are ultimately responsible
William,
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I agree with you completely on the points you make about open source, free cms and the fact that there are no guarantees with this 'free' method of building a website. My question though, was really trying to understand where I should look to for help in this situation? I've only just begun building my website, so everything that happens on the site now is a learning process and not mission critical. However, the Captify Content module was one of the main attractions of the template design which I decided to purchase for my website. After all, when money exchanges hands, it isn't free any more and the product must operate reasonably as described, no?
Naturally, I have the option to go to the template vendor and get a refund, since it was their product which I purchased and the product is no good to me without the intended compatibility of K2 and Captify Content. However, I don't really want to do this as I would much rather have the product work as described. Hence my earlier question on the K2 Forum, 'who is ultimately responsible?' If it was the K2 update that caused the compatibility issue, (which I assume was the case, since everything was working before the K2 2.6 update) then perhaps the K2 team could indicate the best solution, or even simple acknowledge it was a K2 issue. Failing this, then at least I can move on and find a new template that doesn't use K2, or Captify Content (whichever party is causing the issue).
So essentially I am looking for who might be able to help me, not who might I blame? Once again, I thank you kindly for your time.
- Lefteris
Upgrade to K2 2.6.? now items will not save,
Category: English K2 Community
- william white
Error with K2 v2.6.0 and new Joomla 2.5.7
Category: English K2 Community
I think that the problem lies with open source and "free" in general.
All "free" cms and extensions to them are "free" for us to use and change if we like. There are not guarantees for all environments and more especially no guarantees with mixtures of components.
When we rush to upgrade from stable, tested, and fixed versions of the cms or an extension, we become a part of the testing process in some ways. Sometimes components lag way behind the cms release cycle, especially when there is a short term cycle as in 3.0. I still have stable 1.5 with k2 2.4.1 sites running without errors and with addins that cause no problems along with 2.5 sites with k2 2.5.7.
If it doesnt work when i test it, I wait...and do not hack the core (except for testing and bug reporting) and when I as site owner have tested completely, i go live with upgraded software. This can be seen by the advice given by the official joomla site about who should upgrade to 3.0 and also on many of the different dev's sites answering the same question. Things are in a constant state of evolution.
I guess we as site owners are ultimately responsible
- Happyfeat
Upgrade to K2 2.6.? now items will not save,
Category: English K2 Community
- Zoe
No images will import via K2 cat desc images opt
Category: English K2 Community
I recently upgraded K2 to the latest version (last week) and now I can't add pictures to categories?
This is using the image tab option which is part of K2.
When I go to browse server images, I get the message:
Invalid backend response.
Data is not JSON
Please see screenshot attached.
Attachment not found
Joomla! 2.5.7 Stable [ Ember ] 13-September-2012 14:00 GMT
K2 version: (Last update: October 11th, 2012 - Version 2.6.1)
Can anyone help?
- william white
Change K2 Comment Modul to K2 Contact Modul
Category: English K2 Community
For j1.5 k2multinotify from jiliko.net and k2joom.com will sent comment notifications.
the 2.5 versions of this extension are not ready yet.
- Susan Penter
Front end vanished to Error 403
Category: English K2 Community
The site is a free to use genealogy site and popular in many parts of the world. I have searched all over the web and can find no way of fixing this. I am a self taught amateur web developer and the current state of the site will be letting a lot of people down.
the site is here:
www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/genealogy/
I would be very grateful for any help to get us back on line.
Thanks
- Dominic Reid
Can't Register
Category: English K2 Community
Let's find out if we have something else in common other than using K2 2.6.1 Stephen,
I'm using a Gavick template but I checked to see if it happens with a default template and it does.
I was using Joomla 2.6 but upgraded to 2.7 which didn't cure the issue.
I had 404sef installed but uninstalled it which didn't cure it.
I am using cloudflare and tried disabling that which didn't cure it.
I tried disabling mod_rewrite and SEO friendly URL's, no change.
I'm running out of possibilities so it's starting to look a little like K2 trouble, but I'm surprised nobody else is having any trouble.
You?
- Alen
SOLVED: No OG:image meta
Category: English K2 Community
since i upgraded to K2 2.6.1 on joomla 2.5.7 i cant get a thumb on facebook because og:image meta doesn't exists.
I put the image for item via image tab. Than i went into view.html.php and found following if statement
- Nico Eshuis

19 Oct 2012 11:48 - 19 Oct 2012 11:53 Replied by Nico Eshuis on topic Error after upgrade to k2 2.6.0 Error after upgrade to k2 2.6.0
Category: English K2 Community
Hi, I have the same problem. After disabling k2mart (plugin) the plugin doesn't show products anymore. Logically because this functionality is disabled.. Does everything really work for you Adam?
Edit: Oh yeah, you're right. I forgot to assign SKU's to my products after reinstalling k2Mart
- william white
No K2 data copies over when upgrading 1.5 > 2.5
Category: English K2 Community
first get your 1.5 site up to k2 2.5, then run the upgrade
as i remember there is a post here somewhere with phpmyadmin sql statements that are necessary after the upgrade
first check with phpmyadmin and look to see if your items are in the table k2_items
see here getk2.org/documentation/tips-a-tricks/item/311-manually-migrating-k2-content-from-joomla-15-to-17
- Andy Connell
No K2 data copies over when upgrading 1.5 > 2.5
Category: English K2 Community
I have tried to upgrade to J2.5 using jUpgrade as advised by Simon Wells in another post.
Everything upgrades well and once ive installed the new template for J2.5 and tweak a couple of bits the is looking along the normal lines again;
BUT - K2 doesn't seem to upgrade over?, I have tried from 2 test backups of my site one using K2.5.7 and one using k2.6.1, neither of them work?
Is there a setting I need to have made in order to copy K2 over to the new J2.5 environment?
Thanks
Andy
- michaelmaedoc
Upgraded to K2 2.6
Category: English K2 Community
I dug thru ftp files and found database backup. I replaced the database and retrieved all my content. Then I updated to v2.4, from there update to v2.6.0.
- michaelmaedoc
Upgraded to K2 2.6
Category: English K2 Community
I'm probably going to have to revert to my last backup and rebuild the updates to my software.
- william white
Upgraded to K2 2.6
Category: English K2 Community
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