Cannot upgrade the DB from 2.3.3 to 2.5

sllyons
(@sllyons)

16 years ago

I’m obviously doing something wrong. I’m trying to upgrade a clean 2.3.3 version to 2.5 and getting the following message when upgrading the DB with ../wp-admin/upgrade.php.

“Database Upgrade Required

Your WordPress database is out-of-date, and must be upgraded before you can continue.

The upgrade process may take a while, so please be patient.”

The only file I saved from the 2.3.3 install is the wp-config.php which has the login/pw to the DB. I’ve gone thru the process many times and end up here each time. What is the above symptom indicative of?
thanks

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mjesales
(@mjesales)

16 years ago

I’m having the same SAME issue!!!

mjesales
(@mjesales)

16 years ago

I fixed this problem by going into /wp-admin/admin.php file and removing the if statement that looks for the database version. Not sure if this is a good fix or not. But I did it only after it had run the database version upgrade and the new version is posted in the options table.

gioby83
(@gioby83)

16 years ago

Hi,
I’m having a similar issue also.

I’ve received the same message (Database Upgrade Required) once, but after clicking on it and waited a few seconds, it tolds me the database upgrade went ok.

But now all the pages in my blog are blank like this: http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bioinfoblogblankwz4.png and the same is for the administrative panel.

Thread Starter sllyons
(@sllyons)

16 years ago

Moderators, any suggestions on what to try next? thanks

gioby83
(@gioby83)

16 years ago

[quote]Hi,
I’m having a similar issue also.

I’ve received the same message (Database Upgrade Required) once, but after clicking on it and waited a few seconds, it tolds me the database upgrade went ok[/quote]

Sorry, it seems mine was a problem of filezilla. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/filezilla/+bug/221180 . It is not wordpress’s fault 🙂

By the way, I had upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.5 and didn’t have problems with the database update, please tell me if I can be of any help in testing problems.

suehutton
(@suehutton)

15 years, 12 months ago

I’ve just updated to WP 2.5.1 and got this same error message.

It wasn’t obvious to me that I just had to click on Upgrade WordPress because I didn’t realise it was a link. Doh!

Fortunately, all seems to be well now. Fingers crossed.

mjesales
(@mjesales)

15 years, 12 months ago

I just had the same problem going from 2.5 to 2.51 – again just on this one site – hosted at mosso on a php5 cluster – with ssl turned on in the cluster.

this time though it just chose to show white pages. i’ll try it again.

mdata
(@mdata)

15 years, 12 months ago

Thank you, gioby83. I guess I have company in not intuitively knowing to click. Life is good again.

Thank you.

Lori

bloggerhappy
(@bloggerhappy)

15 years, 11 months ago

hi. i got the same error.
what i did was open the upgrade.php file (located in the wp-admin folder) and then replace all ‘url’ with my own URL (e.g. ‘http://bloggerhappy.com’)

then refresh the http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php
it solved my problem, the installation was done in a jiffy after that.

hope this solves yours too. good luck!