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Alex · August 2nd, 2015, 06:56 PM

Non web-geeks can stop reading here.

I've been negligent on updating a bunch of stuff for quite awhile here, so some tech debt had crept up. The server was no longer able to auto-update to the latest versions of things like php, mysql, phpmyadmin, and a handful more, due to pulling things over the years from different repositories.

So for months, when I would hit auto-update with yum or through the gui, it would fail on a number of items with unresolvable dependencies. I want to ultimately update the site software here to vbulletin 3.8.9, from the 3.8.7 that it has been on for years. 3.8.9 provides a number of security and bug fixes, but it also has some new requirements, such as newer versions of php.

I just borked up my other site pretty good by not getting it updated before trying the vB update, so i want to make sure all of the backend is happy here before I take on that update. To do so, I had to uninstall php, php-mysql, phpmyadmin, and even mysql temporarily. Then I reinstalled everything from the most current repositories, and it all came up reasonably happily. There are a pile of little things that then need to be tweaked for the site to actually work (re-enable memcache, reset all php.ini values, reinstall/reconfigure php-pear), but I have a checklist and it goes pretty quickly. And now the end of all of that, when I hit "auto-update", it confirms that everything is at the latest, with no unresolvable errors. And - everything is at a level that should support the update to 3.8.9.

I don't have the energy now for more troubleshooting, so that last piece will be pushed off for another weekend or two.

August 2nd, 2015, 06:56 PM	#1
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Updated some back-end stuff Non web-geeks can stop reading here. I've been negligent on updating a bunch of stuff for quite awhile here, so some tech debt had crept up. The server was no longer able to auto-update to the latest versions of things like php, mysql, phpmyadmin, and a handful more, due to pulling things over the years from different repositories. So for months, when I would hit auto-update with yum or through the gui, it would fail on a number of items with unresolvable dependencies. I want to ultimately update the site software here to vbulletin 3.8.9, from the 3.8.7 that it has been on for years. 3.8.9 provides a number of security and bug fixes, but it also has some new requirements, such as newer versions of php. I just borked up my other site pretty good by not getting it updated before trying the vB update, so i want to make sure all of the backend is happy here before I take on that update. To do so, I had to uninstall php, php-mysql, phpmyadmin, and even mysql temporarily. Then I reinstalled everything from the most current repositories, and it all came up reasonably happily. There are a pile of little things that then need to be tweaked for the site to actually work (re-enable memcache, reset all php.ini values, reinstall/reconfigure php-pear), but I have a checklist and it goes pretty quickly. And now the end of all of that, when I hit "auto-update", it confirms that everything is at the latest, with no unresolvable errors. And - everything is at a level that should support the update to 3.8.9. I don't have the energy now for more troubleshooting, so that last piece will be pushed off for another weekend or two. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)