How to update bitmani lamp php 5.6 to 7.0

dgonzalez 2016-10-03 11:35:50 UTC #2

Is there any reason why you want to update only your PHP version? If there is none, then I would suggest simply migrating your application to a newer entire LAMP stack with php 7. Let me know if you need any kind of help with this process.

Best regards,

David González

testfb24x7 2016-10-03 12:53:37 UTC #3

thanks u for reply i will be use Lamp 7.0

jose 2016-10-04 15:55:45 UTC #4

Hello,

Thanks for letting us know. If you have any other question, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Best regards,
Jose

simbunch 2016-11-07 23:43:55 UTC #5

Hi
I am having the same problem. When you say "migrating your application to a newer LAMP stack with php 7", do you have a step-by-step or a more detailed instructions for that?

Regards, Mike

jota 2016-11-08 08:17:03 UTC #6

Hi @simbunch,

You will need to follow the next steps:

Install the latest version of LAMP 7.x

https://bitnami.com/stack/lamp/installer

Migrate the content of your old installation to the new one. You would need to copy the different project that you created in the old installation to the new one apart from migrating the database. I think this link will be helpful for you

https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/components/mysql/#how-to-create-a-database-backup

If you have any other question, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Best regards,
Jota

simbunch 2016-11-08 13:24:41 UTC #7

The installer seems to be for AWS, but I'm using Google Cloud. Are there options for Google Cloud?

jota 2016-11-09 09:36:57 UTC #8

Hi @simbunch,

You can follow these steps in order to install LAMP 7.x in a Google Cloud instance:

Create a database backup of your current application

https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/components/mysql/#how-to-create-a-database-backup

Download the latest installer in your instance

wget "https://bitnami.com/redirect/to/131581/bitnami-lampstack-7.0.12-0-dev-linux-x64-installer.run"

Stop your current installation and move it to another place

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
sudo mv /opt/bitnami /opt/bitnami.backup

Modify the permissions of the installer and install the stack

chmod +x bitnami-lampstack-7.0.12-0-dev-linux-x64-installer.run
sudo ./bitnami-lampstack-7.0.12-0-dev-linux-x64-installer.run

Note that you can install the stack at /opt/bitnami

Recover the database backup and migrate your application from the old installation (the files are now at /opt/bitnami.backup) to the new one

https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/components/mysql/#how-to-restore-a-database-backup

Note that you would need to create the database schema as it's explained in the documentation.

Remove the old installation if everything is fine
```
sudo rm -rf /opt/bitnami.backup
```

Please note that this step will remove all the old files, if you have not migrated a data to the new installation folder it will be lost.

If you have any other question, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Jota

Probleme with permissions, cron in lamp 7.1.2

simbunch 2017-03-07 14:17:23 UTC #9

I just got around following your steps, but now my server can't seem to start. I have done everything, and copied the htdocs from /opt/bitnami.backup to /opt/bitnami. I have also copied all of bitnami/apache2/conf and the backed up php.ini. However when I go to my website https://www.simbunch.com/ it still shows the default bitnami index.html (i've removed the contents of the html file, but you can still see the title).

What else do I need to do and/or move over from /opt/bitnami.backup?

Please help, thanks!

simbunch 2017-03-07 14:46:14 UTC #10

Ok, I managed to restore my site by renaming bitnami.backup to bitnami and restarting the instance. PHEW!!

If somebody sees this and is able to provide a detailed and working step-by-step, it will be very helpful, and super appreciated! Thanks!

dbarranco 2017-03-08 12:20:41 UTC #11

Hi @simbunch

Thank you so much for sharing your solution. I'm sure somebody will find it useful!

Beest regards.

taropa 2017-04-27 13:58:23 UTC #12

This is insane, why is upgrading so impossible on bitnami. Every time you want to update php it seems you have to just create a new instance and start over. This is very impractical and a new solution is needed.

jota 2017-04-28 11:50:07 UTC #13

Hi @taropa,

As you mention, upgrading the base components of a stack requires to install a newer version of the stack and migrate the data of the old installation to the new one.

Please note that all Bitnami native installers are completely self-contained and run independently of the rest of the software or libraries installed on your system. They won't interfere with any software already installed on your system, so everything you're already running will continue to work normally. That's why it's not easy to upgrade the stack on the fly and you need to perform the manual steps to migrate the app to the new installation.

You can also check our containers offering that allows the user to easily upgrade the base components of the different container.

https://bitnami.com/containers

We're working on adding more applications and base components to that library.

Regards,
Jota

chris_walters 2017-07-16 19:23:02 UTC #14

I've told them the same thing as well. My Joomla admin app indicates that PHP version being used is approaching end of life support and I expected it to be a simple apt-get sort of action to upgrade the PHP version. It's absurd that it takes this many manual steps to upgrade and I haven't gotten around to doing it yet. This is a terrible upgrade path as there will likely be other times in the future when an upgrade of PHP or a other vital component will be needed. Can't expect us to go about migrating servers whenever this needs to happen.

TovisBratsburg 2017-09-07 22:00:59 UTC #15

I ran everything as stated, then when I run mysql -u root -p < backup.sql it fails and stays "-bash: mysql: command not found". Also apps, htdocs and stack are all red in terminal.

Did I do something wrong, or am I missing a step?

dbarranco 2017-09-08 08:15:32 UTC #16

Hi @TovisBratsburg

Since your issue is not related about How to update bitmani lamp php 5.6 to 7.0 could you please open a new ticket so we can track better this issue?

Sorry for the inconveniences, thanks

shahidfoy 2017-09-20 20:57:20 UTC #17

@simbunch how were you able to restart the instance I tried to make the update but it did not work so I am wondering
what commands did you use to restart the old instance

shahidfoy 2017-09-20 21:05:20 UTC #18

@simbunch what commands did you use to restart the old instance?

shahidfoy 2017-09-20 21:41:15 UTC #19

how can i retrieve my bitnami.backup if i am not able to get php7 to work. Is there anyway I can restart the old instance?

simbunch 2017-09-21 01:13:35 UTC #20

I didn't use the commandline, you can restart the instance directly on google's or bitnami's dashboard.

chhaytoch83 2018-02-07 10:58:31 UTC #21

@jota thank u so much

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