AIGA / T3 and PHP8 not working

pifran

I have looked at all extensions compatibility and updated them all. To me they all look compatible.
I have also the plan to upgrade to Joomla 4, so I tried it.
STATUS:

The upgrade to Joomla 4 broke completely the site so that with no PHP version would work anymore.
I restored the previous backup with Joomla 3 version - it works again with PHP 7.4 only
However, although I upgraded to version 2.7.5, JA Extension Manager looks now faulty - loads slowly and does not react anymore. Before restore, with joomla 3, it was working fine.
HOW TO PROCEED TO:
get PHP 8 running
upgrade to Joomla 4 without breaking it all
?
Thanks
As you can see the Extension manager shows something, but it is strangely basic formatted and does not react to any click on the functions like "check update" or "Rollback"

pifran

By the way: now the site is setup with PHP 7.4.
Otherwise the entire backend is not responsing and there is no possibility to logon for troubleshooting. At least not that I know of.

saguaros

Could you switch to PHP 8 so I can check the issue for you?

and kindly check the FTP account again as it doesn't work now:

Status: Connecting to 217.160.223.28:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Insecure server, it does not support FTP over TLS.
Command: USER p34789980-teibite
Response: 331 Password required for p34789980-teibite
Command: PASS ********************
Response: 530 Login incorrect.
Error: Critical error: Could not connect to server

pifran

saguaros I double checked and reset the password.
Data are correct.

I connect errorfree, with filezilla

Concerning PHP8:
1) give me a day and timeframe where you can plan testing as the site will be offline - 2 hours timespan for example
2) what version should I configure: 8.0, 8.1 or 8.2?

Thanks

pifran

I activated for today PHP 8.1, recommended by my provider.

saguaros

It seems that you switched back to PHP 7, could you share the cpanel info? I will switch and check it directly.

Btw: your site is still in Joomla 3, could you share the Joomla 4 site?

pifran

Maybe I was not clear:

The website cannot sta offline long - only for troubleshooting.
Therefore:
1- I had to revert to Joomla 3 to make it work
2- I have to keep PHP7.4 to make it run.

Therfore you will see Joomla 3 with PHP 8.1. Once you get that running I can do the upgrade again.

Suggestion: you tell me when and I make sure you get a 2-4 hours timeframe with PHP 8.1 active, hopefully not during my night.

When can you do the debugging exactly? Please specify the timezone too.

Thanks!

saguaros

Joomla 3 itself is not fully compatible with PHP 8.1 so if you can clone your live site to have a test / staging site, I will work on it.

pifran

saguaros
However I must say another site with another template works fine with Joomla 3 + PHP 8.1:
http://villa.francescatti.eu/

pifran

OK. That is a clear answer.
Do you want the clone already migrated to Joomla 4 + PHP 8.1 active?

pifran

Clone with Joomla 3 and PHP 8.1 done. Same access.

Root folder on FTP is: TEST_JOOMLA_IRIS

URL https://test.irislichtinger.com

NOTE:
1- with PHP 8.1 you cannot use the backend UI either, I guess you know.
2- I left the Extension manager earlier version as it was working fine. (after upgrading it felt broken on the main site so I left it so for now).

saguaros

Joomla 3 will have issue with PHP 8.1, pls clone Joomla 4 site so I can check.

pifran

OK - I will do the following then:

I will upgrade the current https://test.irislichtinger.com to Joomla 4
BUT
The backend will also not be available, only FTP.
it will not work at all whatever PHP version I configure. is this what you want?

pifran

Now http://test.irislichtinger.com is configured as follows:

PHP 8.1 active
All JA Modules upgraded successfully while on Joomla 3
Upgraded to Joomla 4.2.6

Now is broken with any PHP Version.

Thanks for your help.

saguaros

pifran Could you share the super admin account + ftp account of this site? I tried with above info but it did not work.

pifran

Hi, Strange.
I used the exact same data. FTP did not work. SFTP worked. Can you retry with SFTP?
Super admin account would be of any use if the backend is broken?
tks

pifran

To share super admin please give me an email to write to. Not here. Thanks

saguaros

I can access with SFTP and it looks like the error due to the incomplete update of Joomla and it causes error.

How did you update Joomla? pls follow up steps by steps: https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_3.x_to_4.x_Step_by_Step_Migration

pifran

So I started restoring the Joomla 3 site to do the upgrade step by step. On test.irislichtinger.com:
1) I updated the Joomla 3.9 to 3.10 (as from the instructions)
2) I updated all Joomlart Components using the JA Extension Manager

Now

the frontend is broken.
The backend works.
PHP 8.1 is active

Can you check what is wrong?

saguaros

I updated the file: /templates/ja_aiga/tpls/blocks/mainbody.php

Line 16:

if (in_array(JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('Itemid'), $this->getParam('skip_component_content')) && JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('option') != 'com_config')

changed to:

if (is_array($this->getParam('skip_component_content')) && 
  in_array(JFactory::getApplication()->input->getInt('Itemid'), $this->getParam('skip_component_content')))

Your site is working now.