Upgrading to EE 3 - getting "exception caught" error
How Do I?
I’m trying to upgrade a site (locally) to EE 3.x from EE 2.11.9 (which I upgraded to from EE 2.5.5). I’ve followed the instructions and I’ve removed add-ons that I’m not carrying forward (not compatible with EE3). File-wise, I think I’m set. However, when trying to get to the installer via my admin page, this is what I get:
SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'pace_ee_loc.exp_plugins' doesn't exist:
SELECT `plugin_package` FROM (`exp_plugins`)Obviously I have a table missing but I have no idea how it would even be there if I haven’t been able to get to the upgrade wizard to begin with. HALP! 😊
Hey Angie! Did you replace your admin.php file? And is the installer folder intact in the system folder? That sounds like it’s not even running the installer, which could occur on an out of date set of files, or one missing the installer folder (or isn’t readable).
Ah-ha! The admin.php file was what I was missing (I was using the wrong filename). So now I get to the installer but it’s completely unstyled. Where can I go to edit the paths? They’re way wrong.
It should be getting that info from the database, but you can override it in your config.php file, theme_folder_url, theme_folder_path.
Duh, of course. You’d think I was a noob or something. LOL
Gah - so as soon as I hit ‘update’, the next page shows a 500 error.
Nah, it’s easy to forget all the overrides available, glad to help!
Gah - so as soon as I hit ‘update’, the next page shows a 500 error.
Oh, ruh-roh! Is mod_security on this server by chance? 500 errors are typically environmental and mean something happened on the server that EE/PHP wasn’t allowed to see or handle.
Nope - not seeing it.
Might be suhosin or a compilation error if it’s an older PHP version? In any case only way to get more info from a 500 error is the web server error logs.
I’m using MAMP Pro. This is all that I get in the Apache log:
[Mon Feb 26 16:40:41 2018] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 78618)
[Mon Feb 26 16:40:41 2018] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Feb 26 16:40:41 2018] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Feb 26 16:40:41 2018] [notice] Apache/2.2.34 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.34 OpenSSL/1.0.2j mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.24.0 configured -- resuming normal operationsPHP log is empty.
Hrm, not a MAMP user myself so not sure, though a few on our team use it. Might try hitting up the folks in Slack?
Will do!