[Koha] FW: Problems with migrating from Koha 16.05 to 16.11

[David Whelchel]

Good afternoon Chris,

As promised here is my report on the latest permutation of a fresh Koha installation. After reading again the instructions for installing Koha on Debian I discovered that I was referring to an out-of-date document. The Dec 13, 2016 online wiki page was much improved.  So here is what I was able to do.

 1) installed latest debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso for my dev system
 2) installed and configured Koha 16.05.06.000 from the package distribution
 3) exported Koha 16.05.05.000 from production to the dev system
 4) re indexed the database to show the items in the catalog
 5) ran a number of the saved reports and spot-checked  a variety of catalog records and patron entries

All appeared to go well with one exception. While the staff web client works on the port 8080, the OPAC public client points to the apache2 "It works!" page. I tried both with the DNS and IP addressing with the same results. I also looked at a number of suggestions on the web about managing the koha.conf and 000xx.conf files. I am sure that there is a difference between the way virtual hosts changed between the old system I am an using in prod and the way apache2 works in the newest Debian.  I just don’t have enough experience with this part of the process to make it work. I'll keep digging, but if there is any information on how to properly configure the virtual hosts it would be helpful.

Also when I get the dev system OPAC web client working what is the magic to update this system to the 16.11.x branch?

Again - Than you Chris for your work on Koha (By the way the music was good ;-) --)


--Dave
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David L. Whelchel
725 SE Derby Street
Pullman, WA 99163
whelchel at pullman.com

http://library.dlwa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of David Whelchel
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 9:51 AM
To: 'Chris Cormack' <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Problems with migrating from Koha 16.05 to 16.11

Merry Christmas and A happy New Year Chris,

Have fun with the 7 year old I remember those days!

Don't get me wrong about the flame - I believe Koha is a superior product and without people like you it would not exist. My intention is highlight a problem I see with the documentation and the necessary transition between versions and ever changing OS permutations. But I will probably continue to think that there is a place for both open and proprietary software (just a bigger smorgasbord to choose from ;->)

So here is what I am doing today - put on some good music, get a fresh download of debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso, follow the instructions on https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian using the wget -q -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add - for the package install and report back my results. I am nothing if I am not persistent.

Thanks again Chris for all your hard work  I really mean it. 

--Dave
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David L. Whelchel
725 SE Derby Street
Pullman, WA 99163
whelchel at pullman.com

http://library.dlwa.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Cormack
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 6:39 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Problems with migrating from Koha 16.05 to 16.11

Hi again

Further to my last email, I just tested an upgrade of Koha to 16.11.00 on Debian Jessie (8, latest stable)

Here is my screencap

https://asciinema.org/a/9crqtkdx9d9g5lngoit6aingh


(apologies for the pause at the start, I had to help my 7 year old with roblox, it pauses at zsh for a bit, then it should just all start rolling)

As you can see it went smooth. Maybe you can screencap what happens with yours so we can figure out what is different

Chris

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