Quote From : Brijesh July 19, 2016, 6:27 am Hi,
At the moment it is not possible to auto upgrade the Joomla installations from Softaculous admin panel or auto upgrade via CRON because Joomla requires admin login to update the database and Softaculous does not store the admin login details of the installation.
Actually not entirely true. Use configuration.php for sql account info and take a look at the directory:
Quote /administrator/components/com_admin/sql/updates
In here you'll find 3 directories:
Quote mysql postgresql sqlazure
Depending on the DB in use, for instance, mysql:
Quote 126 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-06-05.sql
86 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-06-01.sql
754 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-05-06.sql
123 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-04-09.sql
733 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-04-08.sql
64 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-04-06.sql
937 Aug 4 23:44 3.6.0-2016-04-01.sql
282 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.1-2016-03-29.sql
128 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.1-2016-03-25.sql
554 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2016-03-01.sql
575 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2016-02-26.sql
874 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-11-05.sql
472 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-11-04.sql
121 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-10-30.sql
119 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-10-26.sql
378 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-10-13.sql
145 Aug 4 23:44 3.5.0-2015-07-01.sql
513 Aug 4 23:44 3.4.0-2015-02-26.sql
383 Aug 4 23:44 3.4.0-2015-01-21.sql
164 Aug 4 23:44 3.4.0-2014-12-03.sql
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These are the incremental changes that need to be applied to updates. You basically just need to keep track of the last update date and if newer one appears, apply it. I'm pretty sure this is how siteground is doing it.
-Bob
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