Update Guide from i-doit 1.7.4 to 1.19#

Here we you will find short instruction to Update your i-doit up to i-doit 1.19.
You may need to Upgrade your Operating System.
This instructions are valid for Debian and the commands used differ in other OS.Before you start, Download all updates you need to do and copy them in the i-doit root Folder.

Updating 1.7.4 to 1.8#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/ and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.8-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typing A. 
Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.8 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.8 to 1.9#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/ and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.9-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typing A. 
Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.9 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.9 to 1.10#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/ and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.10-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typing A.
Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.10 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.10 to 1.11#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/ and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.11-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typing A.
Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.11 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Solutions:

• Reload the page and go on.
• or use the following Hotfix if reloading do not work

Continue with the update

Login and check your installation.

Updating 1.11 to 1.12#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/ and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.12-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typing A.
Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.12 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Upgrade Debian 8 to 9#

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sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch contrib

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sudo apt-get update

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There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
112695A0E562B32A

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sudo systemctl stop mysql cron  

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sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get full-upgrade

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sudo systemctl start mysql cron

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sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Upgrade Debian 9 to 10#

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sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster contrib

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sudo systemctl stop mysql cron

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get full-upgrade

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sudo systemctl start mysql cron  

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sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Update PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.3#

Update packages and install all needed packages

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php mariadb-client mariadb-server php php-bcmath php-cli php-common php-curl php-gd php-imagick php-json php-ldap php-mbstring php-memcached php-mysql php-pgsql php-soap php-xml php-zip memcached unzip sudo moreutils

Create PHP config file

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sudo nano /etc/php/7.3/mods-available/i-doit.ini

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allow_url_fopen = Yes
file_uploads = On
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
max_execution_time = 300
max_file_uploads = 42
max_input_time = 60
max_input_vars = 10000
memory_limit = 256M
post_max_size = 128M
register_argc_argv = On
register_globals = Off
short_open_tag = On
upload_max_filesize = 128M
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
log_errors = On
default_charset = "UTF-8"
default_socket_timeout = 60
date.timezone = Europe/Berlin
session.gc_maxlifetime = 604800
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
mysqli.default_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Activate changes

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sudo a2dismod php5
sudo a2enmod php7.3
sudo phpenmod i-doit
sudo phpenmod memcached
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

i-doit should now display via Administration > System tools > System overview the new PHP Verison 7.3.31-1~deb10u1

Create MariaDB config file if not exist#

Create or update a MariaDB config file

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sudo nano /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/99-i-doit.cnf

insert or update your MariaDB configuration

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[mysqld]

# This is the number 1 setting to look at for any performance optimization
# It is where the data and indexes are cached: having it as large as possible will
# ensure MySQL uses memory and not disks for most read operations.
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# Typical values are 1G (1-2GB RAM), 5-6G (8GB RAM), 20-25G (32GB RAM), 100-120G (128GB RAM).
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 1G

# Use multiple instances if you have innodb_buffer_pool_size > 10G, 1 every 4GB
innodb_buffer_pool_instances = 1

# Redo log file size, the higher the better.
# MySQL/MariaDB writes two of these log files in a default installation.
innodb_log_file_size = 512M

innodb_sort_buffer_size = 64M
sort_buffer_size = 262144 # default
join_buffer_size = 262144 # default

max_allowed_packet = 128M
max_heap_table_size = 32M
query_cache_min_res_unit = 4096
query_cache_type = 1
query_cache_limit = 5M
query_cache_size = 80M

tmp_table_size = 32M
max_connections = 200
innodb_file_per_table = 1

# Disable this (= 0) if you have only one to two CPU cores, change it to 4 for a quad core.
innodb_thread_concurrency = 0

# Disable this (= 0) if you have slow harddisks
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT

innodb_lru_scan_depth = 2048
table_definition_cache = 1024
table_open_cache = 2048
#Only if your have MySQL 5.6 or higher, do not use with MariaDB!
#table_open_cache_instances = 4

innodb_stats_on_metadata = 0

sql-mode = ""

Restart MariaDB afterwards

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sudo systemctl start mysql.service

Updating 1.12 to 1.13#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.13-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.13 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Probably you will get this error:

Then you need to restart the update again.
If you now get a HTTP 500, do the update again.

Updating 1.13 to 1.14#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.14-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.14 is displayed and selected, do the update.

If you see this error:

The Solution is documented here

Updating 1.14 to 1.15#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.15-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.15 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.15 to 1.16#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.16-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.16 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.16 to 1.17#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.17-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.17 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Updating 1.17 to 1.18#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.18-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.18 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Upgrade Debian 10 to 11#

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sudo apt-get clean

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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sudo systemctl stop mysql cron

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get full-upgrade

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sudo systemctl start mysql cron

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sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Configure PHP 7.4#

Create PHP config file

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sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/i-doit.ini

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allow_url_fopen = Yes
file_uploads = On
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
max_execution_time = 300
max_file_uploads = 42
max_input_time = 60
max_input_vars = 10000
memory_limit = 256M
post_max_size = 128M
register_argc_argv = On
register_globals = Off
short_open_tag = On
upload_max_filesize = 128M
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
log_errors = On
default_charset = "UTF-8"
default_socket_timeout = 60
date.timezone = Europe/Berlin
session.gc_maxlifetime = 604800
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
mysqli.default_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Activate changes

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sudo a2dismod php7.3
sudo a2enmod php7.4
sudo phpenmod i-doit
sudo phpenmod memcached
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

If the apache2 is not restarting and you get the above error, restart the server.

i-doit should now display via Administration > System tools > System overview the new PHP Verison 7.4.30

Updating 1.18 to 1.19#

First, we prepare the update via CLI by open the i-doit Folder at /var/www/html/and unzip the idoit update package with

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sudo -u www-data unzip idoit-1.19-update.zip

If you are asked, overwrite everything by typingA.

If you try the update without PHP 7.3 you will see this message:

Now we open the Web Interface Updater and the Update to v1.19 is displayed and selected, do the update.

Check your system. Check i-doit!

Sources#

• MariaDB upgrade Informations https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading/
• Debian 9 upgrade https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
• Debian 10 upgrade https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
• Debian 11 upgrade https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html