Hi, Jomsocial is on a joomla 1.5 site OK, which is being upgraded to Joomla 3.0. If you can help confirm how we're able to locate a suitable upgraded version of JomSocial for this,
This is the text from out documentation for upgrading a very old version of Jomsocial The download links for all the required versions are available to active license holders
Tier Update
To properly update your JomSocial installation from older version, you MUST make a tier upgrade.
This simply means you need to make a step by step update from one version to another, gradually increasing by the time of release.
It is needed to ensure the proper database update of JomSocial-related tables.
For this example, we will asume that an individual has installed JomSocial 1.0.128 on Joomla! 1.5
All versions of JomSocial up to 2.6 can be installed on this version of Joomla and, really, this is the preferred version of Joomla you should be using if your site is running JomSocial versions over 2.6 or bellow
You can see the entire compatibility sheet here
JomSocial 1.0.128 is one of our first really stable releases published at the end of 2008, so this tutorial will cover all the possible scenarios of the update.
Update Progress
For this practice, our test site is running Joomla 1.5 and this wont change till we reach JomSocial version 2.6. We have JomSocial 1.0.128 installed
First, we need to download JomSocial version 1.1.145 and uninstall version 1.0.128. Once older version is uninstalled we can proceed installing the newer one.
Install the version 1.1.145 and go download version 1.2.206
Uninstall version 1.1.145 and install version 1.2.206. Go download version 1.5.248
Uninstall version 1.2.206 and install version 1.5.248. Go download version 1.6.290.
Uninstall version 1.5.248 and install version 1.6.290.
This is the moment when JomSocial version naming convention slightly change. With release of JomSocial 1.8, we switched to GPL and start following the kernel version numbering where odd version number stand for alpha/beta/RC release, while even number stands for stable release. Therefore, JomSocial 1.7 was beta version of 1.8. JomSocial 1.9 was beta version of 2.0. JomSocial 2.9 will be beta version of JomSocial 3.0 and so on..
You however, do not have to install these beta versions in the tier upgrade process.
We are currently at JomSocial 1.6.290 and we can proceed with download of version 1.8.11
Uninstall version 1.6.290 and install version 1.8.11. Go download version 2.0.6.
Uninstall version 1.8.11 and install version 2.0.6. Go download version 2.2.5.
Uninstall version 2.0.6 and install version 2.2.5. Go download version 2.4.3.
Uninstall version 2.2.5 and install version 2.4.3. Go download version 2.6.3.
Uninstall version 2.4.3 and install version 2.6.3.
This is the moment where we must stop because Joomla 1.5 migration to Joomla 2.5 is required in order to install next versions of JomSocial.
If Joomla migration went well, at this point of time you should have clean Joomla 2.5 installation with database transferred but no extensions installed.
Now install again JomSocial 2.6.3 just to make sure post-migration process went fine and your community is there
Once that is done, you can download the IJoomla Installer and continue doing the tier upgrade much more easier.
