Upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 with Hestia

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Hi everyone, someone did an update with Hestia on board from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 I want to test the software? Requests when updating Ubuntu configs left by default? Are there any other difficulties when updating?

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I was asking myself, if the docs are going to be updated. Version 1.9 introduced support for Ubuntu 24.04. At the time, the docs cover the update path from ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and other EOL versions only.
Maybe @Raphael knows something?

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Docs are going to be expanded shortly, currently, the only “known issue” is to use the exim 4.95 configuration - otherwise exim stops working. PS: Like your nickname :slight_smile:

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I had an issue with clamav-daemon not wanting to start. After fixing it with:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade clamav clamav-daemon -y

apache2, spamassassin and mysql stopped working. I couldn’t fix those so had to go back to my server snapshot with ubuntu 22.04. During the upgrade I left /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf, /etc/redis/redis.conf, /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf also at the default (N).

For apache2 i got this notice: Failed to restart apache2.service: Unit apache2.service is masked. But i couldn’t get it fixed with:

sudo systemctl unmask apache2
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl status apache2
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I was updated, and left all the configures without change, i.e. Everywhere N. I would return to the backup and would do that. Also, after the update, I will not be able to launch SSH in the Hestia panel, And I’m not the only one who has such difficulties, perhaps they corrected

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I still can’t bring myself to upgrade to hestia 1.9, I’m still with 1.8.12. I prefer to continue without SSH than to be without emails or even worse NGIX/APACHE.

Unfortunately I have some very important websites with my projects and I can not afford the fall, luckily this month I will hire a new server ubuntu 22 with hestia 1.8.x, do an upgrade to ubuntu 24 and see if hestia is upgraded to 1.9 without problems.

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Mmm, my tests showed that if it rolls to version 1.8.12, then with the usual update of the system there will be PHP errors, since the new user Hestiaweb has already appeared in the files, but it is not in 1.8 versions. I would do that

  1. Created a backup copy
  2. Created Ubuntu 24.04 or better than Debian 12
  3. Installed Hestia
  4. turned backup
    24.04 there is no choice of language, maybe they corrected, there is only English, I put it from the file from the file, I had no difficulties