some advise for upgrading

[mrmagoo]

I have ISPConfig 2.2.8 and I want to upgrade to latest stable (2.2.14) waht is the best way to do it and what i need to consider?
The server runs ubuntu.
Thanks

[Hans]

- Login to your server as root.

- Download the ISPConfig-2.2.14.tar.gz from Sourceforge.net.

Proceed with the commands:

tar xvfz ISPConfig-2.2.14.tar.gz
cd install_ispconfig
./setup

The installer automatically detects the installed ISPConfig version and performs an update.

The installer creates automaticly an bakup of your existing ISPConfig database files within /tmp.

It is important that you download and run the installer within a pertition/directory which has enough free space.
This is also the case for /tmp.

Do not update from the stable branch to the development-branch or visa versa.

[mrmagoo]

The only thing is what time of downtime will have?
Any idea?
Services will be up or not?

Thanks again

[Hans]

During an update of ISPConfig, only ISPConfig itself will not be available.
All the other services like Apache2 for your sites, FTP, DNS, POP, SMTP & IMAP etc. will be available all the time.

[till]

Just to be sure, it is always a good idea to make a backup of:

/root/ispconfig
/home/admispconfig

and the ISPConfig mysql database before you perform the update.

[Hans]

@Till,

Yes that's correct.
I forgot to mention it, because my backups are done automaticly from one server to another :D

[antun]

I just performed this upgrade, and it is *completely* painless. Your server doesn't go down for a moment.

It takes about 15-20 mins to upgrade, but you don't have to do much input, except check the shell output.

-Antun