When you run Magento Connect Manager for the first time, you need to initialize the downloader. Enter “magento-core/Mage_All_Latest” in the Extension Key field and click on Install New Extensions. Once the initial setup procedure has completed, click on Refresh, and you should see a list of all the Magento packages currently installed.
To upgrade all core Magento modules, you should select the Mage_All_Latest meta package when you perform the upgrade. This way all dependencies will be maintained.
If there is an upgrade available, a new option “Upgrade to (version_number)” will appear in the list. I guess you already have 1.1.6 installed, which is the latest version.
PS: there is also an alternative way to upgrade Magento through the command line. If you have SSH (shell) access on our server, you can run these two commands from the Magento root directory:
This post was very helpful as I had the same question. I entered:
Enter “magento-core/Mage_All_Latest” in the Extension Key field and click on Install New Extensions
and it totally wiped out my Magento on my server! all it shows is:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mydomain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at homeavstore.com Port 80
This post was very helpful as I had the same question. I entered:
Enter “magento-core/Mage_All_Latest” in the Extension Key field and click on Install New Extensions
and it totally wiped out my Magento on my server! all it shows is:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mydomain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at mydomain.com Port 80
Is your server running suPHP? Magento Connect may change the permissions on your directories/files to a mode not supported in a suPHP configuration. If you have SSH access, try to run these commands from your Magento root directory:
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
It should reset the permissions on all directories and files.
PS: you should never attempt to upgrade a production site without first making a backup of your database and files.
@Sindre|ProperHost do you change file / directory permission before or after the attempted core magento update (and failure) ? I am having the same issue.....
I am trying to upgrade to version 1.3 and when I type magento-core/Mage_All_Latest in the extension key and press install all I get is Preparing for Update please wait and then it tries to open Index.php . If I open index.php nothing happens
When I click check for updates nothing happens. I can’t ssh on my server. Is there any other way I can upgrade.
I have just followed all these steps through and it seem to work successfully. Thankfully unlike others I am not getting asny errors. However when I log into the magento admin panel it still says “Magento ver. 1.4.1.1” Why does it still say that afte I just upgraded to 1.4.2 using magento connect?
Have a missed a step? Is there something else I need to do? How can I tell if it worked?
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
I make sh scripts to do this, but I want to know who must be the owner of magento directory…
actually i set as owner my user and as group apache, so with these rights apache should have the same rights as other “users”.
Is this correct?
Must my user be in the apache group?
I am getting the error after i enter - magento-core/Mage_All_Latest - into the extension and hit install.
magento-core/Lib_ZF_Locale requires package “magento-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers” (version >= 1.0.18800)
Install Errors
No valid packages found
PEAR ERROR: install failed
Any solutions to this?
OK AFTER PLAYING WITH THIS A WHILE I WAS ABLE TO GET THE magento-core/Mage_All_Latest TO RUN SUCCESSFULLY BY UNINSTALLING ALL THE MODULES UNDER Channel: connect.magentocommerce.com/core.
