Answers.Body: <p>It sounds like the <code>civicrm.settings.php</code> file may have been removed when the upgrade/downgrade was applied to your site? See <a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Upgrading+CiviCRM+for+Joomla#UpgradingCiviCRMforJoomla-2.BackupyourCiviCRMdatabaseandsettingsfile" rel="nofollow">Upgrading CiviCRM for Joomla</a> in the section "Back up your CiviCRM database and settings file". Hopefully you have a copy of the file in your backup, and can restore it to the appropriate location.</p>
  
  <p>CiviCRM recommends <a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+PHP+Requirements" rel="nofollow">PHP 5.4 or greater</a>, which might have caused the white screens when you tried 4.7. PHP 5.6 is the oldest supported PHP version at time of writing; as <a href="http://php.net/supported-versions.php" rel="nofollow">versions 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 are no longer supported versions of PHP</a>, I'd recommend updating your PHP if at all possible.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thank you for responding. Even though somewhere it said I had PHP 5.3.29, when I went into the area where I can change it, it was already at 5.4. I was able to get a restore from the hosting service, so I'm back where I was before. I'm going to test the update off the main site before proceeding. 
  
  Patti
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Body: <p>(Site information/versions at the bottom)
  I have only used CiviCRM for event registration and entering other events in the calendar. More recently in anticipation of implementing membership capabilities, I had updated to the most recent version 4.6.11 and everything appeared fine. I received a message about running the update on the database and I did that. Everything was fine. But then when I logged on yesterday, I saw that 4.7 was out, so I went ahead and attempted to update to that version. I first just got the white screen. I went ahead and tried to reinstall the 4.6.11 version and got the following message:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Warning: require_once(/home/hobbits8/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/hobbits8/public_html/tmp/com_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115</p>
  <p>Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/hobbits8/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php' (include_path='.:/opt/alt/php54/usr/share/pear:/opt/alt/php54/usr/share/php') in /home/hobbits8/public_html/tmp/com_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I tried uninstalling the component and reinstalling again, but once I uninstalled the component, I no longer had the menu entry for CiviCRM. I also followed the instructions for modifying the php (global settings off--already off, max upload--already at recommended level, time --I modified from 30 to 600). I've tried installing both the old (4.6.11) and the new (4.7) from a file upload and also from the tmp folder on the server and get the same result. I saw something about needing to compare settings with the old backup, and of course (dummy that I am), I do not have a backup.</p>
  <p>I see someone asked a similar question, but the response to him did not fit either his or my scenario (not upgrading from an old version of Joomla or even an old version of CiviCRM).</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Joomla 3.4.8</li>
  <li>PHP 5.3.29</li>
  <li>mySQL 5.5.45 (innoDB enabled)</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Thank you.
  Patti</p>
  
Tags: <joomla><upgrade><4.7>
Title: Warning and Fatal error updating from 4.6 to 4.7 com_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115
ThreadText: # Warning and Fatal error updating from 4.6 to 4.7 com_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-31)
  
  (Site information/versions at the bottom)
  I have only used CiviCRM for event registration and entering other events in the calendar. More recently in anticipation of implementing membership capabilities, I had updated to the most recent version 4.6.11 and everything appeared fine. I received a message about running the update on the database and I did that. Everything was fine. But then when I logged on yesterday, I saw that 4.7 was out, so I went ahead and attempted to update to that version. I first just got the white screen. I went ahead and tried to reinstall the 4.6.11 version and got the following message:
  
  > Warning: require\_once(/home/hobbits8/public\_html/administrator/components/com\_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/hobbits8/public\_html/tmp/com\_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115
  >
  > Fatal error: require\_once(): Failed opening required '/home/hobbits8/public\_html/administrator/components/com\_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php' (include\_path='.:/opt/alt/php54/usr/share/pear:/opt/alt/php54/usr/share/php') in /home/hobbits8/public\_html/tmp/com\_civicrm/admin/configure.php on line 115
  
  I tried uninstalling the component and reinstalling again, but once I uninstalled the component, I no longer had the menu entry for CiviCRM. I also followed the instructions for modifying the php (global settings off--already off, max upload--already at recommended level, time --I modified from 30 to 600). I've tried installing both the old (4.6.11) and the new (4.7) from a file upload and also from the tmp folder on the server and get the same result. I saw something about needing to compare settings with the old backup, and of course (dummy that I am), I do not have a backup.
  
  I see someone asked a similar question, but the response to him did not fit either his or my scenario (not upgrading from an old version of Joomla or even an old version of CiviCRM).
  
  * Joomla 3.4.8
  * PHP 5.3.29
  * mySQL 5.5.45 (innoDB enabled)
  
  Thank you.
  Patti
  
  **Tags:** joomla, upgrade, 4.7
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-01. Score: 1
  
  It sounds like the `civicrm.settings.php` file may have been removed when the upgrade/downgrade was applied to your site? See [Upgrading CiviCRM for Joomla](https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Upgrading+CiviCRM+for+Joomla#UpgradingCiviCRMforJoomla-2.BackupyourCiviCRMdatabaseandsettingsfile) in the section "Back up your CiviCRM database and settings file". Hopefully you have a copy of the file in your backup, and can restore it to the appropriate location.
  
  CiviCRM recommends [PHP 5.4 or greater](https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+PHP+Requirements), which might have caused the white screens when you tried 4.7. PHP 5.6 is the oldest supported PHP version at time of writing; as [versions 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 are no longer supported versions of PHP](http://php.net/supported-versions.php), I'd recommend updating your PHP if at all possible.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you for responding. Even though somewhere it said I had PHP 5.3.29, when I went into the area where I can change it, it was already at 5.4. I was able to get a restore from the hosting service, so I'm back where I was before. I'm going to test the update off the main site before proceeding.   Patti  
  
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