I have been trying to upgrade plesk...but ive wanted to use the best instrucktions first to get everything down step by step before i started.

In my steps i have run into a problem. I have the default install of the plesk version by RackShack. Now, The version in the psa server page is "psa v2.5.0_build020301.14 os_RedHat 7.2". Now, am i wrong here or do i have to upgrade this to 2.5.5 before i can upgrade yet again to plesk 5.0? If so does anyone know the locations of any how tos for this process. Any help is appreciated.

ok now im on the latest patch of 2.5.5

My next goal is to get 5.0 installed. These are standard installs btw. So i downloaded the file...and tried to run them ont he server. The script gets all the way to the point of settinup the databases...admin...and apache...then dies. Here is a clip fromt he screen. Anyone have any ideas?

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===> Installing Apache Server
Trying to stop Apache server... done
Copying apache files... done
Trying to check apache config for default vhost... done

===> Installing psa-suexec (replace for suexec from apache RPM)...
Trying to start Apache server...
ERROR while trying to start Apache server
Check the error reason, fix and try again

Aborting...

The attempt to upgrade Plesk Server Administrator
from version 2.5.5 to 5.0.0 has failed.

Now restore contents of Plesk from /usr/local/psa.sav_2.5.tar


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Any help woulds be apprciated.

My suggestion for this is a little extreme...but it would work...

I am sure you have backups at the 2.5.5 version..right??

good...

deinstall plesk 5.0.* failed install
install plesk 5.0.5 without any sites....
restore your sites from your 2.5.5 backup...

ok
this is what i have done


mkdir /plesk
cd /plesk

put all my sh files in here. and installed the backup util. Now I ran the command

/usr/local/psa/bin/psadump -F -f - > dump_file

Now I have it backed up right? I also did the map file with this command

cat dump_file | /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -m map_file -f -

Now i have 2 files in /plesk(dump_file and map_file).

Then after untaring the new plesk 5.0 download. I ran it:

./psa_v5.0.0_build020809.19_os_RedHat_7.2_i686.sh

This goes ok until it reaches a problem with the "Installing psa-suexec (replace for suexec from apache RPM)...". Im kinda lost at what to do now. I have restored everything back to 2.5.5 fromt he utilities.


As far as just intalling psa 5.0 from scratch. How would I get rid of the previous PSA install so that it doesnt try to read from it?

Any help on this would be greatly apprciated. I have read many of the release note over at plesk along with several forums and im still lost

to deinstall plesk:

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/deinstall deinstall

(warning..on a standard install box..this will remove all site data and all plesk components.)

as far as your backup proccedure...that looks pretty good.

thank you so much.

Will my backups with the 2.5.1 backup utils work to restore it on a rpm install?

I have also a copy of the entire psa directory along with the sendmail and frpmtpage directories mentioned by the plesk staff. So as long as the directory tree doenst change i should be fine right? Thanks for all the help.

if your 2.5.1 backups are rpm install...yes...

if your 2.5.1 backups are standard install..no

to do that..you have to upgrade to 5.0.* standard..restore your backups..then backup again....then deinstall plesk again...install 5.0.* rpm..and restore the 5.0.* standard backup.

Can you please tell me if this restore command looks good? I just want to make sure before i remove plesk.

Since i didnt save the file as a tar.gz the gzip will give me an error right? Will this effct the process...should i change the name? Thanks for the fast support.


cat dump_file* | gzip -d | /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -m map_file -s shells_map_file -f -


Whats the "shells_map_file " is it important?

You might want to see this thread:
http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?...&threadid=19421

The shells map file isn't really needed on a redhat to redhat move...but it would matter if you were going from say debain to redhat...or anything like that.

I get an error :

Unable to resolve hostname or establish network access to
local host: www.mydomain.com.com. You should fix this problem prior to installing
Plesk Server Administrator. After you are done, run the installation again.


My question is...what is it supposed to be. I type in

> hostname
and i get www.mydomain.com

any info on this? I know how to change it...just got to know what it needs to be...localhost?

Ok ive contated plesk and they said that i need to set the server hostname with hostname name.com like usual. They also said to add it to /etc/hosts file.

After doing this...still same error. I do not thing the domain is still live could this be a problem...and if ti is. can i use any domain thats acutally pointing to it?

You need to set your hostname to something that will resolve to your main ip#....remember to set it in /etc/hosts .../etc/sysconfig/network ...type hostname newhostname ...and run the plesk reconfigurator....just to make sure you have it fully set....