AppSuite:Upgrade from 6.22 Debian 6.0

This example describes updating some OX 6.22 installation to Appsuite. The OX6 installation used in this example uses the IMAP authentication plugin.

We start by adding some Appsuite repos to our sources.list.

# adjust this to some final repo location
cat >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ox-appsuite.list <<EOF
deb http://buildservice.oxoe.int/repos/backend-release-7.0.1/DebianSqueeze/ /
deb http://buildservice.oxoe.int/repos/frontend-release-7.0.1/DebianSqueeze/ /
EOF

Then it continues with the straightforward

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

In my example this upgrades the following packages:

open-xchange open-xchange-admin open-xchange-ajp open-xchange-authentication-imap open-xchange-authorization-standard open-xchange-cluster-discovery-mdns
 open-xchange-core open-xchange-imap open-xchange-mailfilter open-xchange-osgi open-xchange-smtp open-xchange-themes-default open-xchange-xerces-sun

For all config files, chose to install new version. Check later no manual changes have been screwed. You can do this by comparing the new (installed) config file with the dpkg.old files created by dpkg. In my case that looked good (mail.properties, imapauth.properties settings kept preserved.)

# vi /opt/open-xchange/etc/cluster.properties
com.openexchange.cluster.name=oxcluster

# service open-xchange stop
# service open-xchange start

Then connect to the OX6 GUI. First connection try says:

Error: updating database, try later

Second try succeeds, looks good.

Lets try to add the appsuite gui

1. apt-get install open-xchange open-xchange-authentication-imap open-xchange-ajp open-xchange-admin open-xchange-appsuite open-xchange-appsuite-backend open-xchange-appsuite-manifest

1. The next package list will install as much as the previous which is the complete list for a appsuite installation w/ backend

apt-get install open-xchange-appsuite open-xchange-appsuite-backend open-xchange-appsuite-manifest

so, what do we do next... from our add-ox6-gui-to-appsuite installation we pull our apache default configuration.

Executive summary: - ox6 installation: workee - update backend to appsuite 7.0.1: workee... ox6 gui still workee with that backend - add appsuite ui packages to the system, update apache's default.conf to one known to be working for my appsuite installation with added ox6 gui - appsuite ui not workee, pointing browser to the appsuite ui gives those 3 flashing points# - firebug console gives errors

in proxy_ajp.conf, add a section

  # OX AppSuite frontend
  <Proxy /appsuite/api>
      ProxyPass balancer://oxcluster/ajax
  </Proxy>

under the <Proxy balancer://oxcluster> .. </Proxy> element in the <IfModule mod_proxy_ajp.c> element.