Should I Upgrade?

[corman420]

I'm currently running Plesk 8.3.0 on CentOS4.

I have a customized my.cnf and php.ini file (an an up-to-date php/mysql installation).

I also have Xcache installed.

My question is, should I update? Or will I face issues with a broken xcache, and will my configuration files for PHP and MySQL get overwritten (obviuously I will back them up)?

I see some users are having email issues, will I?

Also, how should I update PlesK? Via the control panel? Or run a command?

Thanks !

[breun]

I'm currently running Plesk 8.3.0 on CentOS4.

There are a couple of known vulnerabilities in Plesk 8.3's Horde.

I have a customized my.cnf and php.ini file (an an up-to-date php/mysql installation).

I also have Xcache installed.

My question is, should I update? Or will I face issues with a broken xcache, and will my configuration files for PHP and MySQL get overwritten (obviuously I will back them up)?

Plesk upgrades don't overwrite your PHP and MySQL configuration files.

I see some users are having email issues, will I?

We don't have any issues.

Also, how should I update PlesK? Via the control panel? Or run a command?

There are 3 ways:

1. Use the CLI autoinstaller
2. Use the GUI Plesk Updater
3. Use yum if you run RHEL/CentOS/Fedora (Atomic Rocket Turtle has a yum repository)

I like 1 and 3 over 2, because 1 and 3 show you what's going on while the upgrade is running.

[corman420]

Thank-you very much. Great response.

I do use yum, can I update just doing a "yum update" or "yum update plesk" ?

Thanks again.

My email system is very important, which is why I ask if there are known email issues. Thanks for your response.

[breun]

By default you won't have a yum repository configured that contains the Plesk packages, so yum won't pick up any Plesk updates by default. (Still, running 'yum update' regularly is a good idea, as it does update the packages from your OS vendor, e.g. apache, bind and the kernel.)

Unless you are familiar with managing yum repositories I suggest to just run /usr/local/psa/bin/autoinstaller and follow the steps there to upgrade to Plesk 8.4.

[guccijess]

can I update just doing a "yum update" or "yum update plesk" ?
i have the some question

[faris]

No, you can't do a yum update/yum update plesk.

yum update will update your installed operating system applications. That's a good thing to do, but won't do anything regarding Plesk and you do need to know a little about what you are doing when you do so.

Yum knows where to look for updates in a file called /etc/yum.conf (or in files in a directory called /etc/yum.repos.d or something similar).

If you want to be able to update plesk using yum you need to configure these files to correctly point to an online repository that holds plesk updates.

The only one that I'm aware of is Scott's, which can be found at www.atomicrocketturtle.com
You'll find instructions on how to enable his yum repo and plesk repo automatically on that site.

Please be aware that if you enable to normal ART repo from that site you may get more than you bargained for, for example updated PHP versions. Although this again is a good thing it may not be what you want. Be careful.

Faris.

[corman420]

Thanks for the good replies. I still haven't updated, so I think I'm going to do it tonight.

Ims till running 8.3, and the latest I bleive is 8.6. I originally used this to setup yum:
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh

So will that have plesk already in the conf file for yum? If so, then I will just run yum update. I already ahve PHP5 and the lastest MySQL installed, so I shouldn't see any updates for those...

So, just to confirm, running yum update on CentOS4, shouldn't break anything? What about my Xcache - will that get broken at all do you think?

Thanks.

[breun]

I originally used this to setup yum:
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh

So will that have plesk already in the conf file for yum?

That depends on what you answered to "Enable Plesk repository?" when the installer asked you that. You can check the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d to see what repositories you have there and whether they are enabled or not.