Magento command line

Question

I'm trying to update my magento from command line. I changed mage permissions to 755

 chmod 755 mage

Then I launched mage-setup

./mage mage-setup

But when I try other commands the following error occurs

Please initialize Magento Connect installer by running:
./mage mage-setup

Answer 1

I think the issue is that you are missing one part of the mage-setup command. Try using the command ./mage mage-setup .. Notice the . at the end, this should tell the setup to use the current directory.

After this is done you can continue the upgrade with the normal commands.

./mage config-set preferred_state stable
./mage sync
./mage install http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community Mage_All_Latest --force

Answer 2

In "mage" file, replace/uncomment #MAGE_PHP_BIN="php"

with: MAGE_PHP_BIN="php-cli"

The mage console require php in cli mode, and a lot of time "php" point to cgi and it will stop working.

If you don't have php cli version you can always modify mage.php. putting:

if (!defined('STDIN'))
{
    define('STDIN', fopen('php://stdin', 'r'));
}
if (!defined('STDOUT'))
{
    define('STDOUT', fopen('php://stdout', 'w'));
}
if (!defined('STDERR'))
{
    define('STDERR', fopen('php://stderr', 'w'));
}

anywhere before: if (defined('STDIN') && defined('STDOUT') && (defined('STDERR'))) {