I am trying to test OJS 3.4. When I wanted to do it I faced this problem: Warning : require(./lib/pkp/includes/bootstrap.inc.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\public_html\index.php on line 65 Fatal error : Uncaught Error: Failed opening required ‘./lib/pkp/i…

Hi @Journal_of_Positive , Did you download the package from Github as a .zip? If so, it’ll be missing the submodules and composer packages it requires to run. Download it instead from the https://pkp.sfu.ca website. If you’re using a git checkout, don’t forget to follow the additional steps describ…

thank you @asmecher I downloaded from here: https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/download/

Hi @Journal_of_Positive , Is it possible that you’ve mixed some old files in with your 3.4.0 files? It seems to me like the index.php script might be from an older version of OJS. The index.php script should include the line: require_once './lib/pkp/includes/bootstrap.php'; …but yours seems to in…

I removed all files (without config.inc and public file) and started to upgrade it. I faced the following problem. [Ekran Alıntısı]

Please also see the errors [Wed Jun 14 20:22:02.162687 2023] [php:error] [pid 11348:tid 1852] [client ::1:56663] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Mailer driver isn’t specified in the application’s config in C:\xampp\htdocs\public_html\lib\pkp\classes\core\PKPContainer.php:315\nStack trace:\n#0…

Hi @Journal_of_Positive , See the OJS 3.4.0 Release Notebook on configuration changes required for the upgrade process. Regards, Alec Smecher Public Knowledge Project Team

After those, it worked yet I faced this error: * A database error has occurred: Storage engine that doesn’t support foreign key constraints detected in one or more tables: , , , . Change to InnoDB before running the upgrade.

Maybe this does not apply in this case but in my experience, you will always get errors unless you upgrade from the most recent previous version only. This has been the case for me since 3.0.

Hi, Some hosting actually a Softaculous service, and the easiest way to upgrade is by that service. Check your hosting service if you may have it.

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Upgrading OJS 3.4

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asmecher June 15, 2023, 7:02pm 11

Hi @Journal_of_Positive,

See this post: Error upgrading OJS 3.2.1.3 to 3.4 - #3 by asmecher

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team