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[Kamugunga Adolphe <kaadol@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Bob and Knut,
 I got the steps,

Regards,



*Adolphe Kamugunga*
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On 12 July 2016 at 16:19, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Adolphe, please see Bob's guide below. I think the links still work.
> Note that step 3 is a shell script,  but you can also do this manually.
> Knut
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Bob Jolliffe" <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9 Dec 2015 5:54 p.m.
> Subject: [Dhis2-users] Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.21 (using dhis2-tools)
> To: "dhis2-users" <dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:
>
> I know questions about this comes up now and again.  I just finished
>> doing exactly this for a regional server today so I list my steps here
>> for those planning a similar process.
>>
>> Starting state was a server running ubuntu 12.04, openjdk 7 and dhis2
>> 2.16.
>>
>> Database backup was made and a copy kept off the server.
>>
>> 1.  Upgrade the OS to 14.04.  This is the longest (and scariest) step
>> - a big upgrade to do over the internet.  But the recommended
>> procedure (running 'sudo do-release-upgrade') worked fine.  Took a few
>> hours.  Ubuntu creates an emergency ssh backdoor on port 1022 while
>> this is going on, but fortunately I didn't have to use it.  But we did
>> have ufw firewall running so I took the precaution of opening that
>> port just in case (sudo ufw allow 1022).
>>
>> 2.  Install oracle java 8 :
>>
>> sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
>> sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-8-oracle
>>
>> 3.  Download all the upgrade scripts and war files
>> for ver in 17 18 19 20 21;
>> do
>>    wget -O dhis-2.$ver.war
>> https://www.dhis2.org/download/releases/2.$ver/dhis.war;
>>    wget
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dhis2/dhis2-utils/master/resources/sql/upgrade-2$ver.sql
>> done
>>
>> 4.  Read carefully all the upgrade notes at:
>> https://www.dhis2.org/217-upgrade
>> https://www.dhis2.org/218-upgrade
>> https://www.dhis2.org/219-upgrade
>> https://www.dhis2.org/220-upgrade
>> https://www.dhis2.org/221-upgrade
>>
>> 5.  shutdown nginx with
>> sudo service nginx stop
>>
>> 6.  start deploying war files and checking logs as we go.  Apply
>> upgrade scripts as necessary
>>
>> dhis2-deploy-war -f dhis-2.17.war dhis2; tail -f
>> /var/lib/dhis2/dhis2/logs/catalina.out
>>
>> dhis2-deploy-war -f dhis-2.18.war dhis2; tail -f
>> /var/lib/dhis2/dhis2/logs/catalina.out
>>
>> cat upgrade-219.sql |psql dhis2
>> dhis2-deploy-war -f dhis-2.19.war dhis2; tail -f
>> /var/lib/dhis2/dhis2/logs/catalina.out
>>
>> cat upgrade-220.sql |psql dhis2
>> dhis2-deploy-war -f dhis-2.12.war dhis2; tail -f
>> /var/lib/dhis2/dhis2/logs/catalina.out
>>
>> 7.  clear nginx cache and restart
>> sudo -s
>> rm /var/cache/nginx/*
>> exit
>> sudo service nginx start
>>
>> That's about it.  So far everything seems ok.  We just hope there are
>> not problems from messy metadata.  Probably it is a better I idea to
>> do integrity checks on the metadata right at the very start (I
>> forgot).
>>
>> Note I am holding back on 2.21 upgrade because of the issue with md5
>> passwords mentioned in the upgrade notes.   I'll give the users a day
>> or two to make sure they have tested their logins.  Will take 5
>> minutes to do when the time comes.
>>
>> Note that the OS upgrade is necessary to get the right tomcat version
>> through the package system.  We could have avoided by doing a custom
>> tomcat install, but I prefer to stick with the packages.
>>
>> Hope the above helps anyone else faced with this challenge.
>>
>> Bob
>>
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