currently: Version phpList 3.6.10 tyring to upgrade to 3.6.12
Searched forum and goolge for solution: I’ve done all combinations of robots.txt with and without:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /lists/
present and removed but continue to get this error when attemtping upgrade.
@pancakehollow I think that the updater is complaining about an unexpected file, robots.txt. You need to move it somewhere else before updating.
There have been reports here and on Github about difficulties with upgrading to 3.6.12 Update from 3.6.10 to 3.6.12 via interface · Issue #934 · phpList/phplist3 · GitHub so you might want to leave the update until things become clearer.
Thanks Duncan. I thought it might be something like that. Appreciate the suggestion. Have a good day.
@pancakehollow If you are feeling adventurous you could try the updater provided by the Addons plugin, see plugin:addons [phpList Resources]
It is a bit more flexible than the phplist updater. I use it myself to update a few sites that I manage without problems.
Hi duncan - trying to install the plugin you suggested, above but keep getting the error: Error: Invalid download URL, please reload the page and try again
I have created a special, writable directory in /lists/tmpinstall
I go to my current install of v3.6.10
I go to plugins page in phplist
I insert the URL for this plugin: https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-addons/archive/master.zip
I receive error: Error: Invalid download URL, please reload the page and try again
Here is my directory structure and permissions under /home/sending/public_html/domain-directory/lists/:
total 132
drwxr-xr-x. 11 sending sending 4096 Apr 8 14:36 .
drwxr-x—. 5 sending nobody 4096 Apr 5 22:30 …
drwxr-xr-x. 17 sending sending 4096 Oct 24 10:37 admin
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 260 Oct 24 10:35 api.php
drwxr-xr-x. 9 sending sending 4096 Oct 24 10:36 base
drwxr-xr-x. 2 sending sending 4096 Dec 17 17:47 config
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 3630 Oct 24 10:35 dl.php
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 1151 Oct 24 10:35 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x. 3 sending sending 4096 Oct 24 10:35 images
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 708 Oct 24 10:35 index.html
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 49720 Oct 24 10:35 index.php
drwxr-xr-x. 2 sending sending 4096 Oct 24 10:35 js
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 10168 Oct 24 10:35 lt.php
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 24 Jul 31 2022 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x. 2 sending sending 4096 Oct 24 10:35 styles
drwxr-xr-x. 2 sending sending 4096 May 18 2021 texts
drwxr-xr-x. 2 sending sending 4096 Apr 8 14:36 tmpinstall
drwxr-xr-x. 3 sending sending 4096 Jan 19 2022 updater
-rw-r–r–. 1 sending sending 2812 Oct 24 10:35 ut.php
@pancakehollow Which version of php is being used? Have you been able to install other plugins?
Thank you Duncan. I resolved it doing a manual install. I was upgrading from v3.6.10 to v3.6.12.
So in my setup I have a domain name and below that the lists/ directory.
Is there any guidance anywhere on where files like .htaccess and robots.txt files should be located in these two directories?
Thank you and hope you are doing well otherwise.
@pancakehollow The robots.txt file needs to be in the root directory of the web site. It looks like you put yours in the lists directory, in which case it will not have been having any effect apart from causing the phplist updater to complain about the file.
Thanks you’re a lifesaver!