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I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8. Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathauto first and now my site is broken. Most pages give the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me "The Pathauto module is not compatible with the current version of Drupal core. Update the Pathauto module to 8.x-1.6 or later." and does not give me the option to continue to database updates.

I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if I can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

Update:

Based on the comments below, I've manually uploaded Pathauto 1.6 to my site via FTP. Returning to /update.php, I got the option to update the database and that worked and my site is back up again.

Note: The first time I tried this, I renamed the old Pathauto module folder to "pathauto_old", and uploaded the new version to a newly created folder just called "pathauto", and that did not work. update.php continued to report and out of date Pathauto. After that, I deleted both folders, re-uploaded pathauto 1.6, and then it worked.

I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8. Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathauto first and now my site is broken. Most pages give the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me "The Pathauto module is not compatible with the current version of Drupal core. Update the Pathauto module to 8.x-1.6 or later." and does not give me the option to continue to database updates.

I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if I can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8 using my host's upgrade script (Namecheap). Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathouto first and now my site is broken.

  Most pages I try to open, I get the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me I need to upgrade pathauto. However, I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally use to upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

Update:

Based on the comment below, I've uploaded the contents of Pathauto to my site via FTP. On Namecheap, this is at /public_html/modules/pathauto/ and that folder now contains the Pathauto module files. I've doubled checked that the uploaded version is 1.6. I revisited mydomain.com/update.php and I still see the message "The Pathauto module is not compatible with the current version of Drupal core. Update the Pathauto module to 8.x-1.6 or later."

I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8. Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathauto first and now my site is broken. Most pages give the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me "The Pathauto module is not compatible with the current version of Drupal core. Update the Pathauto module to 8.x-1.6 or later." and does not give me the option to continue to database updates.

I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if I can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

Update:

Based on the comments below, I've manually uploaded Pathauto 1.6 to my site via FTP. Returning to /update.php, I got the option to update the database and that worked and my site is back up again.

Note: The first time I tried this, I renamed the old Pathauto module folder to "pathauto_old", and uploaded the new version to a newly created folder just called "pathauto", and that did not work. update.php continued to report and out of date Pathauto. After that, I deleted both folders, re-uploaded pathauto 1.6, and then it worked.

I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8 using my host's upgrade script (Namecheap). Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathouto first and now my site is broken.

Most pages I try to open, I get the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me I need to upgrade pathauto. However, I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally use to upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

I recently upgraded to Drupal 8.8 using my host's upgrade script (Namecheap). Unfortunately I missed the memo on needing to upgrade Pathouto first and now my site is broken.

Most pages I try to open, I get the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."

I can get to /user and log in with an admin account, and I can get to /update.php which tells me I need to upgrade pathauto. However, I can't get to many other pages, and notably can't get to /admin/modules where I would normally use to upgrade a specific out of date module like Pathauto.

Do I have any other options besides wipe my site and restore from a backup? Even if can figure out how to upgrade Pathauto at this point, I'm not clear if that's likely to fix the issue.

Thanks.

Update:

Based on the comment below, I've uploaded the contents of Pathauto to my site via FTP. On Namecheap, this is at /public_html/modules/pathauto/ and that folder now contains the Pathauto module files. I've doubled checked that the uploaded version is 1.6. I revisited mydomain.com/update.php and I still see the message "The Pathauto module is not compatible with the current version of Drupal core. Update the Pathauto module to 8.x-1.6 or later."