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#17013 Cannot update within admin tools

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 08 August 2013 10:25 CDT

jodee.peevor
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nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Did you file this ticket by mistake?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

jodee.peevor
Nope ;) I clicked the update icon within admin tools and it says cannot find xml file - I have to go to extensions and update from there. Just wanted to let you know that its not working ;)
ps about to send out sponsorship pack for JDayUK13 - hope you'll be able to make it ;)
Jodee

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hi Jodee,

I need you to tell me which versions of Joomla!, PHP and Admin Tools you're using.

Regarding Joomla! Day UK, I won't make it. I've had too many over the last three years. I will attend the last two events I'd promised to attend since last year (JD Switzerland and JWD) and then take a break for a year. I will only go to JaB and JWC in 2014. Time to get some much needed rest and focus on our components.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

jodee.peevor
Well it was on several sites - J2.5.14 and 3.1.5 upgrading from admin tools 254 to 256 - it said update found click icon within the admin tools control panel but when I clicked it it said xml not found. My PHP is 5.3.16
A pity about Joomla day ;( I suppose everyone knows your extensions so marketing isnt a big need - nice place to be ;)
Speak soon Jodee

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The packages of our latest versions of our components are rather big. Since the default maximum upload size on most servers is just 2Mb this may cause an upload error. The best solution is to ask your host to set the following in the server's php.ini:
upload_max_filesize = 10M
post_max_size = 10M


If this is not possible, there's a good chance that the following lines in your .htaccess file may work on most servers:
php_value upload_max_filesize 10M
php_value post_max_size 10M


There is also another alternative, but it won't work on all hosts: installation by URL. Please go to the Download section of our site and select the software and version you want to download. Next to the "Download now" button you will see a link called "DirectLink". Right click on it and select "Copy link address" (the exact phrase depends on the browser, but it should have to do about copying the link or its address / URL / location).

Now go to your site's back-end, Extensions, Extensions Manager and find the Install from URL field. Note: on Joomla! 3.x you have to click on the "Install from URL" tab to see that field. Replace the contents of the "Install URL" field with the contents of your clipboard (the DirectLink URL you copied above) and click on the "Install" button next to this textbox. As long as your server supports installing extensions from URL the installation should go through.

If this still doesn't help you can always follow the manual installation instructions in our troubleshooting documentation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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