Upgrade installation for existing sites with MODX 3.0.1

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Summary

When trying to upgrade an existing MODX 3.0.1 installation a warning pops up and the upgrade cannot be finalized. I tried to run an upgrade using eactly the same MODX version I already installed on the same host because I suspected file permissions to be wrong at the existing installation.

Step to reproduce

  • Install MODX 3.0.1.
  • Once done, remove all MODX files from the siteroot
  • upload and unzip modx-3.0.1-pl.zip
  • run {…}/setup
  • choose “Upgrade existing…”
  • click “proceed” one time

Observed behavior

A warning appears:

Warning: Undefined array key “database_type” in /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php on line 118 Warning: Undefined array key “database_server” in /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php on line 118 Warning: Undefined array key “dbase” in /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php on line 118 Warning: Undefined array key “database_connection_charset” in /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php on line 118 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php:118) in /mnt/web320/a2/39/51887839/htdocs/xxxxxx/setup/includes/request/modinstallrequest.class.php on line 228

Expected behavior

Expected the database credential form.

Environment

MODX 3.0.1
Apache 2.4.54
PHP 8.1.11 as well as on PHP 8.0
MySQL 5.7

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Hi @mod2019

I’m not sure why you would do this?

When you delete all the files, you’re also deleting the core/config/config.inc.php file.

This tells MODX about your database, amongst other things and I think that is why you are receiving the errors.

What exactly are you trying to do here - you don’t seem to be upgrading to a new version?

Normal procedure for a manual update would be to unzip the files over the existing ones, then run setup.

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All right, that was helpful. My attempt was to set proper file permissions because they were messy after the initial installation. That’s why I chose the same MDX version again.

With following the approach you mentioned (unzip the files over the existing ones) and leaving core/config/config.inc.php alone I succeeded. Thank you for your very fast reply!

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The UpgradeMODX extra should have done all this for you.

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