NOTE: Most of this is now deprecated. You can use the autoupdater included in the ~[plesk]/bin directory to do the updates. Just make sure you back things up first!
Upgrading Plesk from 7.5.4 to 8.0.1 the easy way. If you are going from an 8.x version to higher 8.x version, you can go straight to editing the sources file and then up2date psa.
Run the script HERE first.
After running the script, follow theses steps (as applicable)
Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and put this in:
yum psa86third http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
Turn off signed packages by changing useGPG=1 to be useGPG=0 in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
=====UPGRADES=====
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Plesk Upgrades
This living document aspires to provide best practices for Plesk upgrades
that result in less downtime for customers and reduced work for technicians.
One of the newest features of this tutorial is that packages can be resolved
and downloaded prior to the actual maintenance. See plesk-prefetch.html
Release notes / Changelogs
download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.3/plesk-8.3.0-for-rpm-based-oses.html
download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/plesk-8.4.0-for-rpm-based-os.html
download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/plesk-8.6.0-for-rpm-based-os.html
download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/plesk-9.0.0-for-rpm-based-os.html
Version Hopping
2 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 7.5 -> 8.6
You can go directly from 7.5 to any higher version but should follow the
upgrade path listed above for prior releases. Technically, the RPMs specify
that direct upgrades from version 6 to any version are supported but this
has yet to be tested. I have recently gone 7.5.2 directly to 8.6 on RHEL4
with no issues.
Plesk 7.5+ works with PHP5+
Plesk 8.1.0 introduced MySQL5 compatibility
Plesk 8.2.1 introduced yum repositories, if you are coming from a version
prior to 7.5, you will need to use older methods like using the RPM tarball
Prerequisites
Networking-fu
cat /etc/hosts
## Verify that the primary IP matches hostname and hosts file
Backups
mkdir plesk_upgrade
cp -a /etc/php.* plesk_upgrade
php -v > plesk_upgrade/phpv
ls -l /etc/php.ini #make sure there is no symlink
cp /etc/my.cnf plesk_upgrade
cp /etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa plesk_upgrade
cp /usr/local/psa/version plesk_upgrade
mkdir plesk_upgrade/pg
cp /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf /var/lib/pgsql/data/usrs_* /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf plesk_upgrade/pg
***BACKUP PSA DB***
mysqldump psa > psa.sql
## I generally have faith in the mysqldump that the psa RPM produces but you may make an extra if you think
that it's a good idea. See /var/lib/psa/dumps/mysql.preupgrade.dump.gz
Resolve *all* updates first (except kernel, skip list may be of use in edge
cases)
# <= RHEL4
# RHEL5
MAGIC (Not needed on RHEL5):
Set:
useGPG=0
## noReplaceConfig will allow things that have modified configuration files to be upgraded (courier-imap)
## useGPG makes me sad but Plesk does not sign their packages
Determine which sources to use. Find them at the bottom of this post.
Add sources for appropriate RHEL/Plesk combination
# <= RHEL4
# RHEL5
# <= RHEL4
up2date -u # perform upgrade, look ma no hands
# RHEL5
Doing a "dry-run" with yum:
yum> update
yum> transaction list
yum> transaction solve
yum> transaction run # (if you want to perform the actions)
To skip that:
# <= RHEL4
# RHEL5
Clean-up
# <= RHEL4
vim /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date # noReplaceConfig=1 useGPG=1, all defaults restored
# RHEL5
diff plesk_upgrade/php.ini /etc/php.ini # make sure nothing crazy is going on
php -v # no errors? compare with plesk_upgrade/phpv
/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a # just in case
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
* Check GUI for additional updates and license issues
* make sure you can at least get to some sites
* Check some sites, POP, SMTP and FTP.
* Check for defunct processes, high load, etc
* Make sure that /var/qmail/control/dh1024.pem exists, see below
If there is no /var/qmail/control/dh1024.pem
cp dhparam512.pem dh512.pem
cp dhparam1024.pem dh1024.pem
/etc/init.d/qmail restart
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Troubleshooting
If coming from psa7.5 to 8.x
rpm -e psa-bu # it will be replaced by psa-backup-manager
rpm -e psa-tomcat-configurator # need to check into a little further, seems safe enough
On RHEL 5 with yum, you might see:
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 MB 00:39
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/filelists.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Try:
rhn-profile-sync
yum clean all
If it still does not work, get around this perform the upgrade with: (You have already performed other updates right?)
These sorts of issuses are supposed to be resolved in rhel5.3
If you are having a problem where you can't install packages from autoinstaller in rhel5 and it wants to do silly things with glibc, remove apache or something like
that, drop in the repos as described above and yum install them. This is because yum is not fully supported by Parrallels and the autoinstaller fails back to the old
filefetcher method. Their support refuses to admit this and claims that it was fixed in 8.6
On RHEL5.2 I had to do the following first to install Plesk 9.0:
If you are running 9.0 and short name mail auth is not working, you have been switched to Postfix. Go back to qmail by installing
If you are having real troubles updating to Plesk > 8 on RHEL3 due to SpamAssassin issues, you might try
The older header files may be causing a conflict.
Worst case:
To disable PHP safe mode for all domains:
/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
=====UPGRADE SOURCES======
RHEL 4 386 8.2.1
yum product-distr-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.2.1/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.2.1/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum product-updates-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.2.1/update-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
RHEL 4 386 8.3
yum plesk-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.3.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum plesk-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.3.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum product-updates-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.3.0/update-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
RHEL 4 386 8.3 Kitchen sink
yum plesk-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.3.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
yum plesk-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.3.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
yum sitebuilder-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/SiteBuilder/SiteBuilder_4.2.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum sitebuilder-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/SiteBuilder/SiteBuilder_4.2.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum sso-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/SSO_2.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum sso-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/SSO_2.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
RHEL 4 386 8.4
yum plesk-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.4.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum plesk-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.4.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum product-updates-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.4.0/update-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
RHEL 4 386 8.6
yum plesk-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum plesk-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
yum product-updates-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/update-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386
RHEL 4 386 9.0
yum plesk-dist-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_9.0.0/dist-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
yum plesk-thirdparty-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_9.0.0/thirdparty-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
yum product-updates-rpms http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_9.0.0/update-rpm-RedHat-el4-i386/
