Compile error

Hi, Thomas, I have just now upgraded to Joomla 4 and tried to follow instructions but am having several problems even getting started. (This is not on my live site but one I am using to get things going.)
I don't see anything on my frontend, and when I click on anything in the backend, like sermon or speaker, etc. (except category, which I didn't use previously, which works), but I turned on debug and got this (I had just been the "Sorry, there is a problem we can't recover from" page):
EXCEPTION TAB:
// Register Helperclass for autoloading
JLoader::register('SermonspeakerHelper', JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR . '/helpers/sermonspeaker.php');

// Load Composer Autoloader require_once(JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR . '/vendor/autoload.php');

HTMLHelper::_('stylesheet', 'com_sermonspeaker/sermonspeaker-admin.css', array('relative' => true));
$controller = BaseController::getInstance('Sermonspeaker');
$controller->execute(Factory::getApplication()->input->get('task'));

On the STACK TRACE tab:
FATAL ERRORSymfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Error\FatalError:
Compile Error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/ancient/ancientcitychurch.org/administrator/components/com_sermonspeaker/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/alt/php74/usr/share/pear')

at home/ancient/ancientcitychurch.org/administrator/components/com_sermonspeaker/sermonspeaker.php:27


I am a pastor who can figure some things out but not sure what is going on here. Should I uninstall everything and reinstall. If so, what first, etc.?

Thanks for any help.

Fred



 

After you have upgraded your Joomla, the next step would be to check for extension updates. There you should see the update for SermonSpeaker 6.x.
If it doesn't show up, you can download the latest version from here and install that. It will automatically update your old SermonSpeaker version.

As you can see in the screenshot, I seem to have all the files. There is one with a 5.7  that I have disabled, but I am still getting this fatal exception. I don't understand what I sent above, but it seems that the line

1. Code:

   require_once(JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR . '/vendor/autoload.php');
2.  

is highlighted. Should I delete everything and reload? Would I lose all my old sermons? (There are in a separate folder.)

Thanks again,
Fred

You're right, you seem to have the 6.x version.
The package doesn't really matter. It's basically a collection file which contains all the other ones. If you want to update that, you could try installing github.com/Bakual/SermonSpeaker/archive/refs/tags/6.0.8.zip
But in the end, it would only replace that single XML file and update the version entry

The error says that it doesn't find the autoload.php file at the expected place.
I would first try reinstalling SermonSpeaker 6.0.8 over the existing installation. Joomla would then just copy all files again which should fix the issue.

Thanks so much. That did it.

Great to hear!