Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'xxx.exp_plugins' doesn't exist
How Do I?
I know this is a duplicate of another thread but I did upgrade a (very old) site from 2.9.2 to 2.11.9 and the plugins table is still not there. The upgrade completed successfully, but the table was not created.
I used the 2.11.9 zip file from github but I don’t see any schema changes to add the plugins table (or any of the other changes required before I can upgrade to v3 and do the rest of the upgrades).
Any suggestion what I’m doing wrong that the schema is not updating?
That table doesn’t exist (and plugins aren’t installed like other add-ons) until v3.
Thanks Derek, then I’m confused what I’m doing wrong. I did the 2.11 upgrade, then followed the v3 migration steps, but the v3 installer complains about the missing table.
Are you sure it’s the v3 installer? It sounds more like you are hitting the front end or the control panel without having run the installer. Make sure the installer folder is in place with proper read permissions. What are you using as the source of your v3 download?
Did you get this fixed? I’m running into the same exact issue.
Can you walk us through it a bit? Where’s it breaking? When you’re trying to upgrade or after you’ve upgraded to what version?
I am having this same issue, but I’m wondering how to run the installer that is mentioned here? I upgraded to v2.11.9 and followed the instructions here to get to latest version of EE3:
https://docs.expressionengine.com/v3/installation/upgrade_from_2.x.html
It says to just visit /admin.php or /system in browser to run the installer, but instead I get this error. How do I get the site to run the installer?
Hi Micah,
Where are you getting your v3 source files? It sounds like you’re missing the installer folder.
Thanks for the fast reply!
I got v3 here:
https://github.com/ExpressionEngine/ExpressionEngine/tree/master-v3
The installer folder is present under /system/ee, but I don’t know how to make it run.
Try from the releases instead of the source branch. The source branch is not designed to run in production, as it’s not a built app package.
https://github.com/ExpressionEngine/ExpressionEngine/releases/tag/3.5.17
Thanks. I downloaded that and re-started the upgrade instructions. Now I’m getting this error:
You must define the following database parameters: database ee/EllisLab/ExpressionEngine/Service/Database/DBConfig.php:157
If I update that DBConfig.php file directly and set the $defaults array to use the database settings (not sure I am supposed to do that), I then am back to the same error (xxx.exp_plugins doesn’t exist) when visiting /admin.php or /system, and no installer runs.
It still sounds like you don’t have the installer folder in place. Did you download the release zip or the source code zip? You want the former.
That was it–thanks! I downloaded source. Thanks for your fast help. I will post again (likely in a new post) if I have additional issues.
My pleasure!
Hi Derek. Do you have a link for the 4.x and 5.x releases also? I used this for 4.3.8, for example:
https://github.com/ExpressionEngine/ExpressionEngine/releases/tag/4.3.8
But there is only an option to download “source” version. And of course when I do that, I’m getting errors again about a bunch of missing tables/columns when visiting /admin.php, instead of the installer. Thanks for any help.