ZPanel 10.1.0 Upgrade to Sentora 1.0.3

Setup and Installation guide for Sentora website hosting platform on CentOS 6/7 and Ubuntu 12.04/14.04

Intro

Warnings about this upgrade process, do NOT update until you have read this section:

  1. Backup /etc/zpanel/
  2. Backup /var/zpanel/
  3. Backup all MySQL Databases
  4. Backup MySQL user passwords.
  5. Did you back everything up? If not please see steps 1 to 4
  6. If this upgrade does not complete successfully please use the above backups to restore your server back to ZPanel 10.1.0.
  7. New MySQL passwords will be generated and stored in /root/passwords.txt please remove these from your server.
  8. All custom settings in x_settings will be reverted to factory settings.
  9. All custom settings in /etc/zpanel/configs/ will also be reverted to factory settings.
  10. Force a rewrite of the Apache virtual hosts using a daemon run after upgrading.

Upgrading

LOG INTO YOUR SERVER/VPS AS THE ROOT USER, do not use sudo.

  1. Download the correct installer for your system:
    wget https://github.com/sentora/sentora-installers/blob/master/sentora_install.sh
  2. Change the script to be executable
    chmod +x sentora_install.sh
  3. Run the Sentora installer
    ./sentora_install.sh
  4. Follow the on screen instructions during the installation.
  5. Force a rewrite of all Apache virtual host settings
    Admin -> Module Admin -> Tick Force Update -> Click Save Changes
    php /etc/sentora/panel/bin/daemon.php
  6. The zadmin, MySQL passwords are all stored in /root/passwords.txt after installation.