Question :How to migrate from joomla 1.5 to 1.6.0 ?
Answer: Updated : 02-03-2011
As you know Joomla 1.6 has been released with some new features to end-users and site administrators including:
- Finer access controls for viewing and editing content with configurable user groups and viewing levels
- A user-defined category structure, from simple one-level to complex multi-level categories
- Installation improvements allowing for multiple extension installations in one package, updatable with a single click
- Expanded language support for easy production of multi-lingual sites
- Start and end publishing times for modules with more control over where they display,
- Fresh new templates and semantic markup to please the eye as well as the search engines
- More creative control through template styles
- Hundreds of additional features, streamlining workflow and productivity
Because the changes from Joomla 1.5 to 1.6 are so large and because of the massive effort put into getting Joomla 1.6 to where it is today, there is no core upgrade path, this is indeed a migration.
In this how to we will show you how to migrate from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla1.6 using com_jupgrade component. Latest release (26-02-2011 Version 1.0.0 Stable release)of this component can migrate :
* Banners – 100%
* Categories – 100%
* Contacts – 100%
* Content – 100%
* Menus – 100%
* Modules – 95%
* Newsfeeds – 100%
* Users – 95%
* Weblinks – 100%
{xtypo_warning}Warning:Actually if you want to upgrade your website to this new release, there is a nice component that
Requirements
- PHP 5.x
- Curl module of PHP enabled
- Joomla 1.5
- Enable System – Mootools Upgrade plugin that is included in Joomla 1.5.19 and greater.
- A Browser with Javascript/jQuery support
Before to start upgrading your website it is important to :
– try first to test upgrading a copy of your website in a test server.
– Before to start upgrade it is important to make a full backup of your website (Database and data).
– Always make sure that your database backup is working and that is not corrupted.{/xtypo_warning}
Now to upgrade follow these steps:
1- First download and install com_jupgrade component
2- Because of some download issues with this component you will need to download joomla 1.6 manually and then upload it to your server to /tmp in your joomla Root directory. Don`t forget to give full acces to tmp path (chmod 777).
3- Now login to your joomla administrator and install com_jupgrade. Because we already downloaded and copied joomla 1.6 to /tmp directory we will need to skip download option. (See screenshot bellow)
4- Now lets start the upgrade, go to Jupgrade component and click START UPGRADE
Now click on Administrator and enjoy your new control panel view
And is done.
Now check your website if everything is working without issues.
