8.1.1 to 8.2

[noworyz]

I am thinking of attempting the update from the latest 8.1 release to 8.2 and have seen many issues that people have had.

My question is this... What proccess should I take to do the upgrade? Should I go ahead and do it or should I wait. I have plesk installed as a VPS on Fedora Core 6 through my hosting company.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

 

[joeybutterface]

I have the exact same dilemma.

I'd like to update to the latest version but it seems there's a very good chance the update will fail.

Has anyone perfected a safe set of upgrade preparations that will result in a smooth update yet? Or are most of us waiting for 8.2.1?

 

[ExarKun]

100% Wait for 8.2.x, or try a fresh install (clean server, no upgrade).

otherwise you will have always problems with a plesk-upgrade.

 

[joeybutterface]

Has anyone even managed a trouble-free upgrade yet? Has anyone from SWsoft commented about all the issues people are encountering with these upgrades?

I think it's pretty bad they are still offering up this as a recommended upgrade when it simply doesn't work. They should pull the upgrade links until they are sure and confident it wont destroy the hosting environments of customers running their software.

 

[Whistler]

Originally posted by joeybutterface
Has anyone even managed a trouble-free upgrade yet? Has anyone from SWsoft commented about all the issues people are encountering with these upgrades?

My upgrade on FreeBSD 6 and from Plesk 8.1.1 to the new 8.2 went pretty smooth without any major problems.

 

[WaDavid]

Originally posted by joeybutterface
Has anyone even managed a trouble-free upgrade yet? Has anyone from SWsoft commented about all the issues people are encountering with these upgrades?

I think it's pretty bad they are still offering up this as a recommended upgrade when it simply doesn't work. They should pull the upgrade links until they are sure and confident it wont destroy the hosting environments of customers running their software.

I have. I installed 4x Plesk 8.1.1 servers a few days before 8.2.0 was even announced/

2 of those were live and another 2 not yet live.

So I thought well lets see what happen if I upgrade the 2 that is not live.

In the process I updated both with 0 problems and the 1 that went live with a few clients on already by accident.

Lucky for us all 3 upgraded perfectly with 0 problems.

Some facts:
- OS is Centor 4.4
- We use a custom PHP manager so that clients can switch between centos's php 4.3.9 and a fast cgi version of PHP 5.
- All use centralized DNS servers via Expand
- All of them use centralized windows mail servers which run smartermail 4.x

I think after the upgrade I just had to reload the plesk/dns/mail servers in expand and everything discontinued to work fine.

I also expiremented on getting Ruby on Rails to work and its pretty easy with Plesk 8.2.0 except that I have no nice way of getting it to work for clients. For example I hate this url:
http://plesk03.glodns.net/cookbook/public/hello/list