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Topic : Joomla auto-upgradeable?

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Posted By: beyondthenet on July 16, 2016, 5:19 pm

Is Joomla auto-upgradeable?

I thought I saw the option to make Joomla auto-upgradeble on our old server. Now I do not see this option on our new WHM.

Thank you

Posted By: beyondthenet on July 16, 2016, 11:54 pm | Post: 1

If Softaculous does not have an auto-upgrade option for Joomla sites, does it at least have the option to manually upgrade all Joomla sites at once?

Softaculous can upgrade individual Joomla sites manually, so it should be a small programming update to allow an admin to upgrade many sites at once?

Joomla is considered by many to be a superior CMS to Wordpress, so I do not understand why Softaculous is not putting equal development into Joomla.

Thank you

Posted By: Brijesh on July 19, 2016, 6:27 am | Post: 2

Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

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.

I am discussing this with our scripts team to check if we can provide auto upgrade option for Joomla using any other workaround for database upgrade.

We will try to add it asap.

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Posted By: beyondthenet on July 19, 2016, 3:08 pm | Post: 3

Siteground has a Joomla Auto-Update plugin. Perhaps you can use their method?

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla/joomla-autoupdate.htm

Thank you

Posted By: Brijesh on July 20, 2016, 7:01 am | Post: 4

Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion.

We will refer to the same.

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Posted By: sarth on July 26, 2016, 11:15 am | Post: 5

Quote From : beyondthenet July 19, 2016, 3:08 pm

Siteground has a Joomla Auto-Update plugin. Perhaps you can use their method?

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla/joomla-autoupdate.htm

Thank you

Thanks for sharing.

Posted By: sactobob on August 7, 2016, 11:00 am | Post: 6

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:

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/administrator/components/com_admin/sql/updates

In here you'll find 3 directories:

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mysql postgresql sqlazure

Depending on the DB in use, for instance, mysql:

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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
--snip-snip--

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

Posted By: Brijesh on August 8, 2016, 9:59 am | Post: 7

@sactobob Thank you for the suggestion.

I have passed this to our scripts team and they are reviewing the same.

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Posted By: cyon on May 15, 2017, 10:36 am | Post: 8

Hi Brijesh,

Is there an ETA for this feature?

Thanks,
Philipp

Posted By: Brijesh on May 17, 2017, 5:41 am | Post: 9

Hi,

Extremely sorry for the delay in adding Auto Upgrade for Joomla.

I just confirmed with our scripts team and they said the auto upgrade for Joomla is ready and we are currently testing it with the installations of all versions of Joomla to make sure nothing breaks.

The testing should be done by this week and we plan to release the package by next week.

Thank you for your patience.

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Posted By: cyon on May 18, 2017, 8:40 am | Post: 10

Great news, thanks Brijesh ????

Posted By: rm_surjeet on June 13, 2017, 12:04 pm | Post: 11

Hi,

Apologies for the delay.

We have added Joomla auto upgrade for Joomla 3.x branch.
Appreciate your co-operation with us.

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Posted By: sactobob on June 13, 2017, 8:01 pm | Post: 12

Thank you very much, this will help a lot!

Posted By: rm_surjeet on June 14, 2017, 6:21 am | Post: 13

Quote From : sactobob June 13, 2017, 8:01 pm

Thank you very much, this will help a lot!

Glad to know that this would be very beneficial for you. I am sure this shall help other as well.

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Posted By: sactobob on July 31, 2017, 6:25 pm | Post: 14

Are there any plans to make this auto-upgrade option automatic. IE like the ability you have for Word Press. I noticed when I went to the control panel, basically this feature allows you upgrade Joomla from within cPanel, but for me it still requires logging into about 75 cPanel/Joomla sites!

I was hoping I could be able to tick the "auto upgrade" option, but even in the softculous admin settings->auto upgrade, Joomla is missing from being able to add it to auto upgrade. :(