Surprisingly, auto update worked

[Patrick]

Now when i say that, i mean it worked from 4.7.4 and a jump tp 4.9.4.  I've heard of many auto update horror stories and so i prepared for a major fail.  Prepared an immediate backup minutes prior and prepared to get errors.  To my surprise it upgraded all on it's own with no issues.  I was also a little worried since the install is now on a new server, so i figured server variables were a little different and auto update may fail due to that.

So it's weird that it works for some and others it doesn't.

Nevertheless, i like the IPAM update big time.  Still needs work but nevertheless, enjoying it.

[Enterprisevpssolutions]

I still haven't had any issues with auto-update knock on wood lol

I also backup before i update.

[tallship]

From what I'm seeing, people who install Hostbill under a cp on a shared server don't seem to have autoupgrade issues. There's a couple of reasons I think:

   
• FastCGI or suPHP is usually installed on machines used as shared hosting environments
• On a dedicated machine (Like the now invisible *enterprise* version of HostBill?), using suPHP is not needed nor recommended (There's no use for it unless you are interested in slowing your webserver down)
• According to kbkp HERE, "Auto-upgrade plugin will not work on DSO PHP handler (you will receive archive extract error)".

[Danny]

Auto update worked for me all the time, never had any issue with this

[tallship]

Auto update worked for me all the time, never had any issue with this

How is your HostBill installed? under root in a standalone server as a virtualhost container in /var/www? under a non-priv'd user in a virtualhost container under /home/username/htdocs? under cPanel on a shared server? Is Apache using FastCGi or suPHP or w/PHP as DSO? What are the chmod's?

[Danny]

I use FastCGI + 512 MB memory limit and it works for me without any problems.

[tallship]

Okay that's what is is for you then. You're using FastCGI.

The docs have been changed to say suPHP but FastCGI used to work and apparently still does

[trasek]

I use suPHP and 256 mb RAM and always in first update i get some error, but after click on link this in error everything go ok.

[tallship]

Yeah that used to work for me until the nagging by the autoupdate module about outdated cloudstack updates, I had to do a lot of clicking, and running cron, even restarted Apache, and for the life of me I still can't quite figure out how I got that notification to go away within 24 - 48hrs, which is usually how long it takes before it goes away on its own LOL.

Those errors reporting that I still need to apply plugin or patches for updates are, of course, following manual updates - since autoupgrade has always been broken and never worked for me.