phpList Updater: Plugin Update phpList

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Hi,
we are using phpList 3.6.14 and wanted to use the automatic updater for upgrading to version 3.6.15.

When clicking on “use the phpList Updater” on the Dashboard, the following page says:

This plugin needs to be configured, see the plugin documentation.

Checking the Updater plugin at Config → Manage plugins
the following is shown for the UpdaterPlugin

  • Name: Updater Plugin*
  • Description: Page to update the phpList code*
  • version: 1.2.1+20230822*
  • Update statusPlugin must be updated manually*
  • More information: Documentation Page*

Checking the linked documentation at
https://resources.phplist.com/plugin/updater
it is written:
You can upgrade the plugin to the latest version through the Plugins page (menu Config > Manage plugins) using the package URL

Unfortuantely, there is no setting at this page available there to set this URL.

But it looks like, the Updater Plugin is already present in the newest version 1.2.1+20230822.

File public_html/lists/config/config.php does not contain variable $updaterConfig.

What are the steps in order to get the Updater Plugin get working?

Thanks in advance
Holger

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@howie That is explained at plugin:updater [phpList Resources]

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$updaterConfig = [
‘work’ => ‘/my/phplist/updatedir’,
];

Update phpListDownload of Download phplist-3.6.16.zip (phpList) failed

@duncanc Thanks!

The variable

$updaterConfig = [
    'work' => '/my/phplist/updatedir',
];

in config.php and an apache restart made the Updater Plugin to show the button *Download phpList file".

This dir is set to be writable (and executable) by www-data, the apache2 process for serving phpList.

Klicking on the button takes pretty much 60 seconds until the message about a failed download is shown:

Update phpListDownload of Download phplist-3.6.16.zip (phpList) failed

Since a curl call on the machine takes about 3 minutes for downloading the zip file, this problem seems to be a timeout problem.

The timeout for apache2 is set to 300 seconds. So I don’t know, what the problem behind the scene is. Is there an own timeout setting for php or phpList? Maybe, there is a logging available pointing to the right direction? We have pretty much a standard installation of Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) and made very few modifications to phpList (optical).

Thanks again for your help
Holger

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@howie You can try setting the php timeout as explained on that same page of the documentation.

But SourceForge is taking an extremely long time to download the phplist zip file, several minutes. I don’t know why that is happening. Yesterday that was happening initially but later I downloaded the zip file in just a few seconds.