Struggling to Install (then upgrade) OJS via git

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Hi,

I’m trying to eventually upgrade fro an up-to-date OJS 2.4.x site to a new .git installation of OJS 3.2.x. The basic .git install was OK. I just;

git clone https://github.com/pkp/ojs.git

git submodule update --init --recursive

I moved the files I needed to for upgrade, merged my config files, ran

php tools/upgrade.php upgrade (no output from that)

When I try to first load the site, I get a fatal PHP error
require_once(/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/ircmaxell/password-compat/lib/password.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/classes/security/Validation.inc.php on line 16
[Mon Mar 20 14:59:17 2017] [error] [client 198.96.78.130] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/ircmaxell/password-compat/lib/password.php’ (include_path=’.:/home2/journals/test_html/classes:/home2/journals/test_html/pages:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/classes:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/pages:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/adodb:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/phputf8:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/pqp/classes:/home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/lib/smarty:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php’) in /home2/journals/test_html/lib/pkp/classes/security/Validation.inc.php on line 16

lib/pkp/lib/vendor/ircmaxell/password-compat/lib/password.php is indeed not there, and if I check the GitHub - pkp/pkp-lib: PKP Web Application Library it doesn’t seem to be there either.

I must have missed something fundamental at the beginning… I’d really like to set this up with git… any pointers?

Thanks,
verdon

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Hi @verdonv,

You’re missing the Composer dependencies. Try…

cd lib/pkp
composer update

I see that this isn’t mentioned in the wiki documentation – I’ll add it there.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks Alec,

I’m getting
bash: composer: command not found

I’ll see if I can sort that out.

v

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Should there be a composer.phar file somewhere? In lib/pkp/ I’m just seeing a composer.json and composer.lock file.

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Hi @verdonv,

You’ll have to install Composer if it’s not installed on your server already – see http://getcomposer.org/ for details.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks Alec… just figuring that out. I don’t know a whole lot about composer… have it on my development Mac, but not on my production CentOS box.

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That did the job, and the upgrade looks to have gone OK (3 small journals). There’s a LOT of ‘PHP Strict Standards’ and a couple ‘PHP Parse error’ in the httpd log, so I’ll have to turn down the noise there a bit. I suppose it is to be expected that I have to redo all my themes… hope it is worth it :wink:

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Hi @verdonv,

A note about the strict mode standards – these are currently a known annoyance; we’ve already resolved them in the current development codebase, and starting with OJS 3.1 they’ll no longer be a problem.

If you’re running into problems, watch out for the PHP fatal errors. Those can provide more information that’ll help debug.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks for your help… things seem to be working, but I’ve got lots of tires yet to be kicked… I did find what I think is a bug, and created a ticket at GitHub.