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VirtueMart. How to update Virtuemart component manually

Amina Freinger January 26, 2015
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This tutorial is going to show you how to update VirtueMart component manually.

VirtueMart. How to update Virtuemart component manually

IMPORTANT: Make sure that your template is compatible with the newest VirtueMart version. You can check the template compatibility on the template preview page in the technical details section (see the screenshot below):

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We strongly recommend that you make the complete backup of your webstore and its database manually, before proceeding to the update. That will help to restore the website if update is unsuccessful.

Database backup

You can export data from your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin tool. You will find a link to phpMyAdmin in your control panel. It depends on your hosting package, so the directions may differ from the ones you may have in your Cpanel.

  1. Log into cPanel with the username and password your hosting provider gave you.

  2. Find an icon for phpMyAdmin and click it.

  3. It is going to take you to phpMyAdmin tool. The list of available databases will be listed on the left hand side once you get into phpMyAdmin. Select your store database.

  4. Click Export at the top.

  5. Under Export Method choose the option you need.

  6. At the bottom of the page click Go:

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  7. You will be prompted to save a file on your computer. Once you do, the backup will be created and saved. It may take several minutes, depending on the size of the database.

    You can keep the backup and re-import it any time to restore your database, on this server or any other MySQL server.

    Feel free to check the detailed tutorial How to back up a database.

Website backup

  1. Log into your hosting cPanel.

  2. Find an icon for File manager and click it.

  3. Open the folder with your Joomla installation.

  4. Select all files and folders and click Compress button:

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  5. You will get the archive with all your website content included. Download it to your PC.

    You can keep the backup and re-upload it at any time to restore your website files on this server.

Updating VirtueMart

  1. Once the backup is completed, you should download the newest VirtueMart packages from the official site. Download com_virtuemart.XXX.zip and com_virtuemart.XXX_ext_aio.zip files to your PC (where XXX is the number of the required VirtueMart version).

  2. Using File Manager in your Hosting Control Panel or FTP-client upload the downloaded archives to the root folder of the Joomla installation and extract them:

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  3. Then log in Joomla admin panel and navigate to Extensions -> Extension Manager menu.

  4. Open the Database tab. You will see that your database is not up to date. Click the Fix button to update it:

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  5. After everything is done, refresh your site.

    NOTE: You can check VirtueMart version in Components -> VirtueMart menu in the left column (see the screenshot below):

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    We can see VirtueMart component was successfully updated.

NOTE: if you see a blank page on your site after the VirtueMart update, you can visit VirtueMart forum to use a proper solution.

This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to update VirtueMart component manually.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

VirtueMart. How to update Virtuemart component manually

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