Question Updating to 12.5

[QWeb Ric]

We're currently running Plesk 11.5.30 Update #55 on CentOS 6.8, and some time ago we upgraded MySQL via, I think, this process:

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh
yum upgrade mysql

I believe this also caused PHP to upgrade. We're currently running PHP 5.4.45 and MySQL 5.5.51.

Recently we've noticed a number of nginx gateway timeouts, and whenever this happens dmesg always shows a PHP segfault, so we believe that PHP 5.4.45 is to blame and are now looking at update options.

If we choose to upgrade Plesk to 12.5, could we please get confirmation that our above Atomic repo use isn't going to complicate anything? What versions of PHP/MySQL will the new Plesk bring in? Unfortunately the "see what's new" link from within Plesk results in a 404 error =(.

Should we remove (if so, how?) the Atomic repo before upgrading Plesk? There was a reason for updating MySQL at the time, I think because a version above 5.4 was needed, but this was so very long ago now that I'm not really sure to be frank. This was our only reason for using that repo though.

Any advice would be much appreciated. These are production servers so I'm of course very cautious about any major version bumps.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi QWeb Ric,

pls. use the URL: => https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/12.5/whats-new/
and consider to read the official Plesk documents, if you would like to know, what Plesk ships as own components: => https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/12.5/software-requirements/#s4-1-1 ( pls. read for example: "Plesk 12.5 for Linux distribution packages include the following components: ..." )


Instead of BELIEVING, you should consider to INVESTIGATE issues on your server, to get to the root cause of each issue.

Plesk for Linux services logs and configuration files ( KB - article: 111 283 )​

Sometimes, it is as well a good idea to change the log - level, to get more informations in psa - log - files:

How to enable/disable debug logging in Plesk 11.5 and up? ( KB - article 120 101 )​

 

[QWeb Ric]

Thanks for the links. This answers my versioning concerns.

I'm still not sure however, if I need to remove the Atomic repo first? Also I see that 12.5 comes with Fail2ban now, which is something we installed manually on these servers. Again, would this conflict with what Plesk tries to bring in?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi QWeb Ric,

consider to disable ALL non-standard repositories before you upgrade, to avoid conflicting package - installations and try to remove the Fail2Ban package ( after you made a backup and moved the folder to "etc/fail2ban.backup", so you are able to use own jails or unique Fail2Ban configurations ).