so that means nothing in the upgrade script even ran…  the first thing that runs is a simple option update – not sure how it could fail…

do you have firefox with firebug?  can you try the upgrade with the console open?  and see what the ajax response is when the upgrade tries to run?  if failing should be able to get an error…  and worth checking the server error log to for anything…

This is what it said when running with Firebug console running:

” 

9068
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function attracta_shouldrun() {
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Do you know what attracta is?? another wp plugin? if so, can you disable it and try the upgrade?

Attracta is not a plugin, its part of the hosting setup, it’s something that checks meta tags, that’s all.

As I mentioned, 5.1.3 works just fine with no issues, so it’s very strange. 

Was everything after the ‘9068’ in the response from the server? If not what was the actual response from the server? To successfully run, SP is expecting a simple number and only that number…

I think you gave us the info from the wrong column…  you gave us the headers…  we just need the response tab…

how did you remove wp super cache?  did you remember to remove the advanced-cache.php file from wp-content?

interesting…

do you know:  https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/upgrade-aborted-2/

that guy and site?

Seems he is having exact same problem…  the attracta stuff is killing the ajax upgrade stuff…  I have access to his stuff and can see it…

Our ajax response is supposed to be a single digit response – or in error situation, an error code/message… but in this case, the attracta stuff is corrupting our ajax response and throwing the upgrade into error state…

can you disable the attracta stuff??  or get it to not corrupt every ajax response?  will have to get with Andy and see if anything we can do to handle these erroneous conditions…

Ive been trying with no joy. How can I completely remove everything related to Simple-Press and then reinstall? Just delete the plugin ?

My Database will of course be OK, I just am curious to see if a clean delete then reinstallation will fix things.

not sure how that will help…  its the attracta stuff foiling the upgrade ajax…

are you saying you want to remove simple press files AND data?  and do a complete fresh reinstall?

before getting drastic, can you try a one line change for me?  see this post:

https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/ugrade-from-4-5-1-to-5-1-4-failed/page-2/#p116249

and try adding that one line to your sp-upgrade.php file…  worth a try…

In a twist of irony – that worked perfectly.. now i get a strange error on the forum page, as it appears the sp-resouces folders are no longer there. How do I get them back? t may have been something I broke along the way as I can’t see how the upgrade will have done this.

what’s the error?  or a link to site?

check forum – integration – storage locations and make sure set up correctly…

This is the error on the forum page:

so on your server, does wp-content/sp-resources directory exist?  then under there, does forum-themes and default directories exist?

No Sir – that’s where I must have borked something over the last week or so with the upgrade issue.