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Trying to update a 2.5.16 site to 2.5.28 then to 3.4.1 however when I follow the official guide here I see the following error message popup on screen when clicking 'write files directly'.

The archive file is corrupt, truncated or archive parts are missing

I ftpd into my site and noticed that I had no /tmp folder (no idea why), so I created (755 permissions) one and re-tried however the error persists. I have cleared cache, purges cache, logged in/out also.

Update

It's definitley an issue with the remote host (1and1) because I am able to copy the site to my local XAMPP setup and upgrade with no issues.

Looks like my /tmp and /log paths weren't set correctly (I wasn't using the hosts absolute root path). Having set this and tried to to 3.4.1 via the extension manager, it stopps at 26% and gives the fowwowing error;

unable to open index.html for writing

Accessing the homepage (blank) I am receiving;

Fatal error: JControllerBase cannot implement JController - it is not an interface in myDomain/htdocs/libraries/joomla/controller/base.php on line 18

Most likely issues with the /log folder as described here although I will post back (when I've tried @Lodders suggestion!).

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  • Is your Temp Path in the Global Configuration set correctly?
    – Lodder
    Jun 24, 2015 at 15:10
  • Cool. Yes, this can sometimes be the issue. The tmp directory is required as it stores a copy of the extension zip for Joomla to then extract and move the files to the appropriate directories, therefore not having it defined correctly means Joomla can't process the zip file you're uploading.
    – Lodder
    Jun 24, 2015 at 15:24
  • See my answer below.
    – Lodder
    Jun 24, 2015 at 15:40
  • Have you checked that all folders/files are writable in Joomla System Information section in the backend? May I also suggest that you check with your hosting provider that there no hidden folder called logs that's conflicting with Joomla's logs directory.
    – Lodder
    Jun 24, 2015 at 16:19
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    Ahh ok. In which case, rename your Joomla logs directory to logs2 and then make sure you also define that in the Global Configuration. Then try the upgrade again ;)
    – Lodder
    Jun 24, 2015 at 16:30

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To answer your first question regarding the issue with the temp directory:

Yes, this can sometimes be the issue. The tmp directory is required as it stores a copy of the extension zip for Joomla to then extract and move the files to the appropriate directories, therefore not having it defined correctly means Joomla can't process the zip file you're uploading.

As for the log directory:

This directory is used to store log files that are created with Joomla JLog class. If this is not set correctly, you will get the following message as shown in your question:

could not open log for writing

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Hoping this helps someone; my path to tmp was correctly set within Joomla so to solve this problem I accessed the /tmp folder via FTP client and deleted the existing .zip update file that was in there. I then ran the update again and it worked perfectly.

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  • Many thanks for this tip. Sorted my issue :)
    – David
    Jul 21, 2016 at 12:04

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