Upgrade 7.5.4 to 8.1

[ps4you]

Have anyone sucessfully an upgrade from Plesk 7.5.4 to 8.1.

I have a CentOS 4.4 Box with the RHEL4 Version of PLesk 7.5.4.

Is it better to upgrade from 7.5.4 to 8.0.1 and then 8.1 or can i upgrade directly to 8.1. Can i use the Cp Panel Installer or is it better to upgrade manually.

Kind Regards

ps4you

 

[poke]

I would upgrade incrementally.

As always, backup your data and I think the updater will work for you.

One thing to keep in mind is that plesk 7.5.4 houses the vhosts in /home/httpd/vhosts/ and Plesk 8 by default installs the vhosts to /var/www/vhosts/... This could lead to problems if you or clients have been using absolute paths...

I do believe that the update now will retain the /home/httpd/vhosts/ structure so just a heads up.

Good Luck

 

[Hultenius]

Originally posted by poke
One thing to keep in mind is that plesk 7.5.4 houses the vhosts in /home/httpd/vhosts/ and Plesk 8 by default installs the vhosts to /var/www/vhosts/... This could lead to problems if you or clients have been using absolute paths...

The default path already is /var/www/vhosts/ in CentOS 4.x and Plesk 7.5.x.
However, if you had RedHat 9 or something, the path might have been /home/httpd/vhosts/.

 

[poke]

A fresh install, sure.

I was just bringing this to his attention so he can successfully update his box

 

[radialhosting]

Go to 8.0 and then to 8.1

I had issues going to 8.1 from 7.5.x on Redhat

 

[Spacey@]

Hiyas..

I'm in nearly the same situation. But 7.5.4 running on a Strato Suse 9.3 and thinking about an upgrade. - Thought about that few months ago as well but didn't dare so far

Did you already upgrade? And did everything go well via the plesk updater? Step by step: 7.5.4 -> 8.0.0 -> 8.0.1 -> 8.1.0?

Thanks, Spacey

 

[ps4you]

I have tested it on a Test Box:

Upgrade from 7.5.4 to Version 8.0.1 failed with autoinstaller. I upgraded to the 8.0.1 Version manually-stop plesk /etc/init.d/psa stopall:

pwd
/root/plesk8.0.1/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/base

[root@plesk base]# rpm -Uhv *
error: Failed dependencies:
php-configurator is needed by psa-8.0.1-rhel4.build80060613.20.i586
psa-autoinstaller >= 3.0.1 is needed by psa-8.0.1-rhel4.build80060613.20.i586
psa-tomcat-configurator < 8.0.0 conflicts with psa-8.0.1-rhel4.build80060613.20.i586
psa-security = 7.5 is needed by (installed) psa-migration-manager-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.i586
psa = 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-bu-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.i586
psa-pre >= 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-bu-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.i586
psa-pre >= 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-migration-manager-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.i586
psa-pre >= 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-api-rpc-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.noarch
psa-pre >= 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-spamassassin-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060617.18.i586
psa-api-common = 7.5.4 is needed by (installed) psa-api-rpc-7.5.4-rhel4.build75060321.20.noarch


I upgrade with the option nodeps and force
[root@plesk base]# rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps *

after the base package upgrade i installed the opt packages manually with the option rpm -Uhv without any problems:
vault
updater
perl
migration
mailman
mail
docs
api
backup

after that i installed the /root/plesk8.0.1/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386 Application (Tomcat)
You must install the following Application from the Redhat Network
Installing:
alsa-lib i386 1.0.6-5.RHEL4 base 302 k
chkfontpath i386 1.10.0-2 base 13 k
php-domxml i386 4.3.9-3.22 update 50 k
php-gd i386 4.3.9-3.22 update 98 k
php-mbstring i386 4.3.9-3.22 update 920 k
ttmkfdir i386 3.0.9-14.1.EL base 43 k
unixODBC i386 2.2.11-1.RHEL4.1 base 829 k
unixODBC-devel i386 2.2.11-1.RHEL4.1 base 772 k
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 update 267 k
xorg-x11-font-utils i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 update 302 k
Installing for dependencies:
xorg-x11-xfs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 update 315 k

remove dummy-selinux-vz-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
its only for Virtuozzo and install rpm -Uhv *

remove rpm -e tomcat4 tomcat4-webapps tomcat4-admin-webapps psa-tomcat-configurator and install /root/plesk8.0.1/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/opt/java / with rpm -Uhv *

reboot and install plesk 8.1 with the console autoinstaller ./psa_installer_v3.1.0_build061201.02_os_RedHat_el4_i386

This upgrade works for me. We upgrade our Server on 2 March.

 

[thewolf]

Hi,

I'm also considering to upgrade from Plesk 7.5.4 to 8.1.

Do you still recommend going through Plesk 8.0 before upgrading to 8.1?

Thanks.

 

[Spacey@]

It worked for me via 8.0... so if I do this once again, I'd go that way.

 

[radialhosting]

same. Go to 8.0 first.

 

[ps4you]

Yes, go to 8.0.1 manually(all components)and then install the version 8.1 with the autoinstaller on the command line. I have updated my productive Server on 02 March without any problems.

Kind Regards

ps4you