Upgrade from 2.9.2 – 3.0 fails at Database Upgrade Required

  • Resolved welshicons

    (@welshicons)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hello all, after trying the automatic upgrade with failed, I manually upgraded from 2.9.2 to 3.0.

    All plugins are disabled but when I go to wp-admin I get “Database Upgrade Required” Clicking on the “Upgrade WordPress Database” button results in a 500 Internal Server Error

    This site is running on a dedicated host. Any ideas?

    There are nearly 10,000 posts in the database and which all appear to be viewable – without the plugins obviously

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  • Thread Starter welshicons

    (@welshicons)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Additional information:

    The url which fails is http://www.welshicons.org.uk/news/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1&backto=%2Fnews%2Fwp-admin%2F

    I’ve stripped the .htaccess file down to:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /news/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    I’m now getting really desperate as I need to add more content. All ideas welcome

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Delete wp-admin and wp-includes folders.

    Download a FRESH copy of wordpress’s latezt.zip

    Copy the whole thing up.

    See if that helps.

    Thread Starter welshicons

    (@welshicons)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    @ipstenu – thanks but I’ve tried that to no avail

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Oh, I’m an idiot! I saw this yesterday too!

    Create a file called “php.ini” in the /wp-admin/ directory of your blog

    In the file add the text “memory = 20MB” without the quotes

    Thread Starter welshicons

    (@welshicons)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks again but it was one of the first things I tried and didn’t work

    Thread Starter welshicons

    (@welshicons)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    OK, I’m getting really desperate now. I have deleted everything. Downloaded WordPress 3.0 again, uploaded it and let it create a new wp-config file.

    It then wants to upgrade the database, tries to do it for about 60 seconds and then gives a 500 error

    Thread Starter welshicons

    (@welshicons)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    It must have been some strange caching issue as I tried again 12 hours later and it is now working

    jtracy

    (@jtracy)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    When I press Upgrade, I get “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted…”

    Any ideas?

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