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PUTTY Joomla Upgrade

11 Feb How To Upgrade Joomla 1.5

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Lots of folks have still been running Joomla 1.5 as a content management system on their websites.  I have one in particular, that I need to update to a later version of Joomla.  As you may know, Joomla is up to Version 2.5.1 at the time of this writing.  I have some major platform updates to do.

But in the case that you need to keep that old and faithful version of Joomla 1.5 running, the upgrade docs are here:  http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.5_from_an_existing_1.5x_version

How I Like to Upgrade

My upgrades on Joomla 1.5 have been very easy.  Can you imagine that I’ve upgraded over 20 times now ?  I HAD to make it easy.

  1. Back up your site and database!
  2. Visit http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.5_from_an_existing_1.5x_version and find the correct download version.   Download and upload to your Joomla root directory.
  3. From here, I like to use PUTTY to connect via SSH and all I do is issue the command to UNZIP joomlaupgradefile.zip (or whatever your zip name is)
  4. From there, PUTTY will ask if you want to overwrite the files.   I command it to upgrade and overwrite all files.
  5. Check site and log into back end to see if version has been updated.
  6. DONE.

To stay up on versions only takes minutes and prevents hours of dealing with restoring backups because of hacks and exploits possible with non-updated code.

A few minutes of prevention, can help and do wonders for your time later.

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