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#27798 FATAL error on both site sides

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Latest post by Smartoweb on Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:48 CDT

Smartoweb
After updating Akeeba backup to 5.3.4 there is a blank page with error '0 - Call to undefined method FOF30\Platform\Joomla\Platform::getSessionVar()' and all site is blocked with the same page. Could you please help me to solve this? best regards

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Joomla! seems to have forgotten to copy some of the updated files when installing the update. It is a bug in Joomla! that dates back to Joomla! 1.5.5. Nobody has fixed it and we are unfortunately not allowed (on pain of being unlisted from the Joomla! Extensions Directory, actually) to provide our own installer to prevent our clients from being bitten by Joomla's bugs. Let's work around that issue.

  • Extract the ZIP file of Akeeba Backup.
  • Find the lib_fof30.zip file inside it.
  • Extract the lib_fof30.zip.
  • Copy all the files from the fof folder into your site's libraries/fof30 folder. WARNING! DO NOT copy the files into your site's fof folder.


After that you can log back into your site's backend. Then please try installing Akeeba Backup 5.4.0 again, without uninstalling it before.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Smartoweb
Great! and thanks.

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