Migrating and Upgrading to Joomla! 4.x • Re: Upgrade from 3.10.12 to 4.4.3 (I think) failed, red screen now

The upgrade from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 failed for three reasons:

1. Session Path Writable is not enabled. Contact your webhost provide to enable it. You were told about this before.
2. Open Base Directive is in effect. Contact your webhost provider to remove the open base directive. You were told about this before.
3. Max. Input Time is undefined; this causes the upgrade to end before finishing. Set Max. Input Time to a value between 60 and 120.

Joomla 4 is bigger than Joomla 3 and you will need to increase the PHP settings for upload_max_filesize (make it 64M) and post_max_size (make it 128M). It is probably a good idea to increase the PHP memory limit to 256M.

Delete the filesystem and DROP the database tables in your existing website. After making the changes referred to above, restore the site from the Akeeba Backup file that you made when your site was at Joomla 3; uninistall JCK and check that the website works with Joomla 3.10.10, then try the update again. Good luck.

Statistics: Posted by jab71 — Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:35 am

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