SOLVED Joomla Not Finding Available Updates
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- Luke Douglas
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I believe I found the problem with the "Update: :Collection: Could not open
updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml
/update.xml" on Joomla updates.
I did extension research on this problem, tracing down different parts such doing a GREP search for different terms in that error message. Simply could not find anything that may have been the problem BUT I did find in the "libraries\joomla\updater\adapters" folder a file called 'extension.php'. This had the following code in the "public function findUpdate($options)" area:
if (substr($url, -4) != '.xml') { if (substr($url, -1) != '/') { $url .= '/'; } $url .= 'extension.xml'; }
Hmmmm...what if it wasn't finding a 'xml' on the end of the string? I mean if you look at the error message "Update: :Collection: Could not open updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml /update.xml", there is a space between " updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml " and the "/update.xml"
So I checked the 'XXXXXX_update_sites' MySQL table (XXXXX = table prefix) and found the record for "RocketTheme Update Directory". In the 'location' field, I found that there were spaces both in front and following the " updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml " value like this without the brackets "b][i][color=#BF0000]SpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpace[/color][/i]http://updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml[i][color=#BF0000]SpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpaceSpace[/color][/i][/b". [NOTE: Had to put in red 'Space' text as editor removed actual spaces.
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So I simply removed the spaces before and after " updates.rockettheme.com/joomla/updates.xml " in the table record, went back to the Joomla Extension Manager, purge the cache and clicked 'Update' again. Viola! No error message.
NOTE TO RT DEVELOPERS! Update your SQL table update for "RocketTheme Update Directory" and this should resolve the problem!
Enjoy!
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- Luke Douglas
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Igor,
FYI, I checked other clients table records and not all had spaces in the template update location, whether they had the default Gantry template or a commercial RT template. I'm not sure if the problem was in the template installation files or in an update. I do 'regret' not remembering which client I found this on but, as with most old-time developers, I'm awful at documentation.
If I find any others, I'll post the template name and version here. - Just another old hacker!
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Did you try to run RokUpdatesClean
www.rockettheme.com/extensions-downloads...3493-rokupdatesclean - Check my services at: Mihha-Vision
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- xtianus
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Igor Mihaljko wrote:
Well that did the trick
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Glad to hear that
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- trey braid
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I'm not even seeing an option to click on in the backend to even start the update process...
UGH!!!
Trey
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- Kat05
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trey braid wrote:
I'm not even seeing an option to click on in the backend to even start the update process...hi trey,
UGH!!!
Trey
on older versions of j2.5.x you may not have the link > components > joomla update in your joomla administrator. but check under > site > control panel, there should be an icon somewhere for the joomla update status.
kat
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