Well, I did it! Wheezy to Jessie on one of my VPS today. It is one with just a couple of websites that are really just testbeds and a mailserver. (Postfix/Dovecot) Having backed up all the mail server config. and the sites and mysql, I decided to just give it a go. A rough outline:-

Backups
Update all wheezy packages and autoremove, autoclean etc
Change sources.list then upgrade
OpenVPN and clamav-daemon had problems so I purged them and reinstalled
Otherwise it was plain sailing.
Finally Xen shell shutdown and boot
The apache config files needed some rewriting. A lot of the directives are moved from virtual host files to the main apache2.conf and you have to make sure that virtualhost config files are named .conf - all summarised here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/migrating-your-apache-configuration-from-2-2-to-2-4-syntax

One other point, if you are signing in as root and using password instead of key, the Jessie upgrade changes the default SSH config to rootpasswordlogin no

Keith


On 28 April 2015 at 03:36, Keith Williams <keithwilliamsnp@gmail.com> wrote:
I upgraded my computers here at home on Sunday. Met a couple of minor hitches which won't be relevant to the VPS. Am reading about the Apache thing now ready to do the big upgrade this week - hopefully.


On 28 April 2015 at 02:48, Frederik Vanrenterghem <frederik@vanrenterghem.biz> wrote:
I went ahead and updated from wheezy to jessie. The update required an additional 600MB, and I had to make some changes to my apache2 config. With http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html next to me, it was not too much trouble. There's some changes in PHP as well which I'll have to look into before upgrading another VPS.

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2015-04-28 2:59 GMT+08:00 Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com>:
Hi Ian,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:48:16PM +0100, Ian wrote:
> As ever, I'd quite like someone else to do the Wheezy to Jessie
> upgrade first :)

People have been upgrading to jessie ever since shortly after wheezy
was released, since then Debian testing was what would become
jessie. But as usual, the problem is knowing if your exact
combination of packages has a hassle-free upgrade.

Are you asking if there's anyone who used apache 2.2 on wheezy with
authentication who has since upgraded to jessie with apache 2.4?

Cheers,
Andy

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Keith's Place  www.keiths-place.co.uk
 
Tailor Made English   www.tmenglish.org
 
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