Hi,


I'm trying to upgrade my Limesurvey Version 3.22.11 to Version 4.1.0.
Sadly I get an error by trying to upgrade the database under #URL/index.php/admin/databaseupdate/sa/db/continue/yes

The error says:


RecursiveDirectoryIterator::__construct(upload/themes/question): failed to open dir: No such file or directory

Datei updatedb_helper.php, Zeile 3047.

The german description of that error says "Ein Fehler trat während des Datenbankupdates auf. Fehlerinformation:", that says "There was an error during the database upgrade. Information of the error:".

Thing is, in my installation i got the following in my upload-folder:
So there's really only one folder called survey in there. The "question" folder that seems to be missing isn't available. When I create an emtpy folder, the error message displays anyway and the database-upgrade can't be finished.

What changes do I have to make on my installation to be able to finish the upgrade?

Thank you very much for your response and help.

All the best

What are your versions of PHP and MySQL on your server?

Maybe it muts be reported : upload/themes/question must be created

I'm running with PHP 7.2.27 and mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.4.12-MariaDB

OK, so the problem shouldn't be in the PHP and Database version.

What rights does your "uploads" folder have?

That would be:
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data upload

Looks good in my opinion. 755 is recommended:
manual.limesurvey.org/Installation_-_Lim...irectory_permissions

I assume the "themes" folder has the same rights inherited from the "uploads" folder.

correct, this is inside my uploads-folder:
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data surveys
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data themes

And inside "themes" we have:
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data survey

wait, seems it worked now.
That's weird!

After trying and trying, I needed to login again.
But this time I was redirected right to the administration desk, without having a notice about a database update, and now the notification area says "The database was updated from version 424 to version 425" (in German "Die Datenbank wurde von Version 424 auf Version 425 aktualisiert.")

The info on the lower right corner says I'm running Version 4.1.0 now.

I even was able to upgrade to 4.2.0 without any more errors.
The database is on version 426 now.

Strange, but good that it worked out.

Maybe we create the directory after testing it ?

Potential issue in 424 or 424 or 425 upgrade.