Question K 1.7.2 -> K 2.0.4: all my topics are missing

No luck on our steps. I'm still looking at PHP stuff. Just wondering, because now we know a little more. Do you think in my instance that 1.7.X to 3.0.X would do the same thing?

It's difficult (impossible) to know for sure. I have probably done about 500+ Kunena updates in my time and I have never experienced the issues you are having (which is why this topic is mystifying to me). Theoretically (and as long as your K 1.7.2 site is working on a J! 2.5 platform), you should be able to update directly from K 1.7.2 to K 3.0.1 without any hitches.

I'm coming at this from a theoretical viewpoint and the proof-of-concept requires a test site that only you can provide for yourself. One thing is for sure: you can't run K 3.0 on a J! 1.5 platform. I don't know whether the best way to migrate from J! 1.5 to J! 2.5 is to use SPupdate (which you mentioned in msg #19 here - we've had a few topics posted on this forum from people who have used SPupdate (which I haven't looked into) - or jUpgrade (mentioned by Matias in msg #18 ) which I have used before ... and used successfully. So the proof of the pudding is rather in the eating, I guess.

I tried Jupgrade, but it lacked what it could do so there was a lot of manual work at the end. I then bought SPupgrade and did that on the test site over and over, until I had it right. I documented too.

I can't go to 3.0.X yet because of my PHP issue. I'm still trying to figure that out right now and at least I can try that on the one site (test25). That is already broken, so I can try to go from 2.0.X to 3.0.X.

sozzled wrote: Thanks. Not that I know anything about JEvents and XMAP (because I know nothing more than what I searched this forum and the internet):

The current versions are (according to what I have found):

JEvents 3.1.1
XMAP 2.3.3

I don't know the technical requirements for these things, however.

I need to keep xmap for SEO, but I can uninstall Jevents. That's one off the list to worry about. I can actually upgrade one now. Let me see.

Updates were available for most of the modules in question, however not all were fixed from the update. Jevents had a few updates and that didn't work, so I just uninstalled it. I'm removing one last one and I'll find a replacement for it later, at least on the test site where it doesn't matter

I'm going to upgrade to K3.0.X then because I meet the requirements and again it is on the test site so it really won't matter. Actually, that's what it is there for. I just wish I had a 3rd.

okay, I've got an update.

1) I removed all the extensions that complain about php 5.4
2) Attempted to upgrade to K3.0.X with using Control Panel -> Global Configuration - Kunena

received this error:

JInstaller: :Install: Cannot find XML setup file

3) Downloaded the 3.0.X version from Kunena and installed it using -> extension manager

Same result. Looks good in the back (admin control panel) as all categories and other data seem to exist, but in the front end all the replies and topics are 0

interesting...

At least I'm on the most current version so we should have a bit easier time troubleshooting.