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On upgrading my version 1.2 the installation went into a loop by telling me serendipity found a new version and wanted to install.

After clicking on 'upgrade' the adminpannel shows up that states everything went oke and i didn't have to make anny extra changes.

Clicking on the button 'to new version' i landed on the page that stated there was a new version, then back to the adminpannel and so on.

I checked, double checked and could not found the answer to the problem. Until, i thought it might be a problem with the system knowing it had a new version installed and ready.

Checking the config files and in the file serendipity_config_local.inc.php the versionnumber indeed was still 1.2

Changed the number, saved the file and uploaded it to the server.

Problem fixed. Checked the blog and it seems everything is a oke.

Hope to have helped someone with the same problem.

Grts,

Tonnie

Ps. Wrote about it on my blog in Dutch: http://vision2form.nl/webontwerp/seo-ni ... -loop.html

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Hi!

Usually this only happens if serendipity_config_local.inc.php is not writable for the PHP server, and you suppress PHP error messages that might have notified you about this.

I thought the upgrade had a check if that file was writable, wasn'T there any output regarding this?

Anyways, thanks for putting a pointer here.

Regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

No, there wasn't any error message. Everything went a oke until i pressed the 'go to blog' button.

I have exactly the same problem here, though I am upgrading from 1.3 to 1.3.1. I am always getting into this loop. Everything goes fine without any error message, but on the start-page there is still only the upgrade request message.

After changing serendipity_config_local.inc.php manually, to get my blog working again I checked, if S9Y was right, by telling me all the writing permissions are met. All I can see is that apache is only allowed to access and execute this file, but not read it. On our server we work with ACL¹, maybe that's a hint.

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Hi!

Hm, that sounds like serendipity_config_local.inc.php is really not writable. Can you temporarily give it 777 privileges to see if apache/php can write to it?

Regards,
Garvin

That's not the problem, like I said I got it working already. I just think the detection to check if the file is writeable, doesn't work properly. Otherwise an error would have appeared during the upgrade process.

Hi!

Hm, s9y uses the PHP "is_writable" function...if that would return true, but write access is notgiven, I wonder how else we could check it?!

Regards,
Garvin

Well... I suppose we could write a random rewrite rule, then try to read it in again.

But is_writable should return the correct value.