This Server was set up in 2007 on SuSE 10.1 & Plesk 8.1, but meanwhile SuSE 10.1 reached end of life cycle and is no logner being supported. It got increasingly tedious to keep up to date with current security patches. The main reason for delaying an upgrade was that SuSE isn’t very good to upgrade form each build to the next and this server runs several productive realms and databases.
Nevertheless I had been looking around for a decent new Operating System and decided to go for CentOS as it is very friendly towards upgrades.
Anyway here is how I did it.
Lets get started!
My provider has a protected directory /private-backup/ where I can store files even over restore or new installation. This saved me the trouble of a downloading and uploading the backup.
So lets do a backup with pleskbackup:
/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all /private-backup/plesk-full /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map /private-backup/plesk-full -map /private-backup/plesk-full.map
You can get a smaller file by copying clients (and their domains) and by skipping logfiles:
/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v clients --skip-logs /private-backup/plesk-clients /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map /private-backup/plesk-clients -map /private-backup/plesk-clients.map
Now download the backup and when youa re finished install CentOS 5.5. My provider Strato provides a slim CentOS image ready to install Plesk. When the new installation is finished you should upload the backup again.
Plesk 9.x
While uploading the backup you can start to install Plesk. Open http://www.parallels.com/download/plesk9/#centos and find the installer for your platform.
mkdir ~/psa cd ~/psa wget http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/CentOS5/parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_i386 wget http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/CentOS5/psa-9.5.2-cos5.build95100504.12.i586.rpm.tar.gz chmod +x parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_i386./parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_i386
Press Enter to advance through the Installer:
Select the desired products and their versions ================================= The following product versions are available: 1. [*] Parallels Plesk Panel 2. [ ] Parallels Small Business Panel 3. [ ] Sitebuilder
and select custom install
1. [*] Base packages of Plesk 2. [*] Plesk Updater 3. [*] PostgreSQL server support 4. [ ] Application vault packages 5. [ ] Plesk Professional Web Site Editor 6. [*] Plesk API [former Plesk Agent] 7. [*] Plesk migration manager 8. [ ] SiteBuilder publishing support for Plesk 9. [ ] SiteBuilder module migration suite 10. [ ] ColdFusion support for Plesk 11. [ ] MIVA Empresa support 12. [ ] Plesk billing 13. [*] PHP5 support 14. [*] Plesk hosting features Different mailservers 15. (*) Qmail mailserver 16. ( ) Postfix mailserver 17. [*] Additional Plesk modules 18. [ ] Game servers 19. [.] Addition mail services 20. [*] Server backup solutions 21. [.] Additional language packs 22. [*] Plesk webmails support
If a selection is followed by a there are subcomponents you can chose to install, for example:
Plesk hosting features: 1. [*] Bandwidth Limiter For Apache support (mod_bw) 2. [ ] Apache ASP support 3. [ ] Tomcat Java Servlets support 4. [*] Apache mod_python module 5. [ ] Ruby on Rails supportPrimary components list / modules; 1. [*] Plesk Firewall module 2. [*] Plesk VPN module 3. [ ] Plesk Fileserver module and SMB file server package 4. [ ] SSHTerm - SSH Terminal java applet 5. [ ] Watchdog (System monitoring module)Primary components list / mail: 1. [*] Mailman mailing list manager support 2. [ ] Kaspersky antivirus module 3. [*] Parallels Premium Antivirus 4. [*] SpamAssassin support
Then proceed with the install, bring some patience. Should Plesk abort the process, then a „yum install db4-utils“ might help to resume.
Once the install has completed can now log in to Plesk:
https://hostname.domain.name:8443/ User: admin Password: setup
One of the best features of my old server was a perfectly installed opcode cache xCache. I decided to use APC on this system since it appears to become part of PHP 6.0
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh yum update php yum install php-pear yum install php-devel yum install httpd-devel pecl install apc
create file /etc/php.d/apc.ini
extension = apc.so apc.enabled = 1 apc.shm_size = 192 apc.include_once_override = 1 apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXX apc.shm_segments=3 apc.ttl=3600 apc.user_ttl=3600 Selective caching
apc.shm_size value is the cache size in megabytes
Restore Data from Plesk 8.4 to 9.5
Meanwhile the backup should be uploaded, but if you try right away to restore your backup you will only encounter this error:
pmm-ras error (Error code = 1): == STDOUT ==================== Archiver error: unable to extract files from /root/backup/complete ============================== == STDERR ==================== ==============================
This is related to the new format of the Plesk backup file in version 9.x. Fortunately you can use pr9-backup-convert to convert an 7.x 8.x to 9.x version file.
/usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/ /private-backup/plesk-clients
When the convert is finished you can log into Plesk, navigate to Home -> Backup Manager and you will see the newly converted file:
„This is a valid backup. Data can be restored from this backup“: backup_xxxxxx_1009040712.xml
Follow the instructions to restore all clients and their domains.
That is it!
Tips:
Use Xenu’s Link Sleuth to check for 404 errors.
Issues:
- Plesk install aborted, install the required libraries
yum install db4-utils - Mysql will not start after „yum update“
Comment out „# skip-bdb“ in /etc/my.cnf
mysql_upgrade –verbose -u admin -p
enter the plesk admin password at the prompt - WordPress paths point to old directory structure, open phpmyadmin
update wp_postmeta set meta_value = replace(meta_value, ‚/srv/www/vhosts/yourhost.tld/httpdocs/wp-content/‘, ‚/var/www/vhosts/yourhost.tld/httpdocs/wp-content/‘) - Horde Webmail is not enabled
reinstall the packages via the installation subfolders that were created at the start. In this case:
rpm -ivh –replacepkgs psa-imp-4.3.6-cos5.build95100504.12.noarch.rpmrpm -ivh –replacepkgs psa-horde-3.3.6-cos5.build95100504.12.noarch.rpm - Dr Web is spamming mails
edit /etc/drweb/drweb32.ini
# CronSummary = {Boolean}
# Enables output of update session log to stdout.
CronSummary = No
Documents that helped me
- Install Plesk on CentOS:
http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/how-install-plesk-control-panel-linux-vps-dedicated-servers-5434/ - APC on CentOS:
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2008/10/01/upgrading-php-and-installing-apc-on-centos-5-with-plesk/ - Parallels backupconvert:
http://kb.parallels.com/en/5864