OpenProject 3.0 to OpenProject 4.0 Debian/Ubuntu Upgrade Guide

This guide describes the upgrade process from OpenProject 3.0 to 4.0 on Debian 7.7 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS step by step.
Note: We strongly recommend to update your OpenProject installation to the latest available 3.0 version (currently 3.0.14), before attempting an update to 4.0.

Preparation

• Before Updating, check that all the installed OpenProject plugins support the new OpenProject Version. Remove incompatible plugins before attempting an upgrade.
• Stop the OpenProject Server. You may even add a maintenance page, if you feel comfortable with that (for example using the approach taken in" this blog post":http://blog.flowdock.com/2009/03/11/stopping-your-rails-application-with-phusion-passenger/)
• Please do a backup
• Stop the (delayed_job) worker process.
  If you run the worker process with a cronjob, disable the cronjob temporarily.
  In case you run the woker process through RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec script/delayed_job start, execute the following:

RAILS\_ENV=production bundle exec script/delayed\_job stop

• Update your system:

\[root@debian\]\# apt-get update  
\[root@debian\]\# apt-get upgrade

Get the new OpenProject Source Code

Change into the directory where OpenProject was installed as the operating-system-user OpenProject runs as. We assume that OpenProject is installed in /home/openproject/openproject by the openproject user.

[root@debian]# su - openproject -c "bash -l"
[openproject@debian]# cd ~/openproject/openproject

Remove manual changes and modifications (If you have modified OpenProject source files and want to preserve those changes, back up your changes, and re-apply them later):

[openproject@debian]# git reset --hard
[openproject@debian]# git checkout stable
[openproject@debian]# git pull

Upgrade Ruby

OpenProject 4.0 requires Ruby to be installed in version 2.1.x. Assuming you have installed Ruby via RVM, do the following to upgrade your Ruby installation:

[openproject@debian]# rvm get stable
[openproject@debian]# export -f rvm_debug
[openproject@debian]# rvm install 2.1.4
[openproject@debian]# rvm use --default 2.1.4
[openproject@debian]# gem install bundler
[openproject@debian]# bundle install

Node.js installation

The major change from OpenProject 3.0 to 4.0 (when looking at the system requirements and installation) is how the assets (JavaScript and CSS) are precompiled. The precompilation step needs Node.js now.
We will install the latest 0.10.x version of Node.js via nodeenv :

[openproject@debian]# exit
[root@debian]# apt-get install python python-pip
[root@debian]# pip install nodeenv
[root@debian]# su - openproject -c "bash -l"
[openproject@debian]# cd /home/openproject
[openproject@debian]# nodeenv nodeenv
[openproject@debian]# source ./nodeenv/bin/activate
[openproject@debian]# npm -g install bower

As a reference, the following Node.js and NPM versions have been installed on our system:

[openproject@debian]# node --version
                      v0.10.33
[openproject@debian]# npm --version
                      1.4.28
[openproject@debian]# bower --version
                      1.3.12

The Upgrade

Now that the sources and dependencies are in place, you can migrate the Database and do the upgrade:

[openproject@debian]# cd /home/openproject/openproject
[openproject@debian]# npm install
[openproject@debian]# bower install
[openproject@debian]# RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake db:migrate
[openproject@debian]# RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake db:seed
[openproject@debian]# RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake assets:precompile
[openproject@debian]# touch tmp/restart.txt

Serving OpenProject

This sections only applies to you, if you serve OpenProject via Apache and Passenger. If you serve OpenProject in a different way, be sure to check that it still works.

During the 3.0 installation, we have set-up Passenger in the Apache configuration files. During the OpenProject upgrade, we have potentially installed a new Ruby and Passenger Version. The versions of Ruby and Passenger appear in the Apache configuration like this:

LoadModule passenger_module /home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.4/gems/passenger-4.0.53/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
  PassengerRoot /home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.4/gems/passenger-4.0.53
  PassengerDefaultRuby /home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.4/wrappers/ruby
</IfModule>

Please run the following commands to upgrade passenger and re-install the Apache module:

[openproject@debian]# gem update passenger
[openproject@debian]# gem cleanup passenger
[openproject@debian]# passenger-install-apache2-module

The output of passenger-install-apache2-module2 tells you the new contents of the Apache configuration files.
It is basically the same as what is already installed, except for the updated version numbers. Please adapt your Apache configuration accordingly.

Don’t forget to restart apache after the configuration change:

[root@debian]# service apache2 reload

The Aftermath

• Re-enable the delayed_job cron job that was disabled in the first step.
• If you have put up a maintenance page, remove it.
• Start the OpenProject server again
• Watch for further OpenProject updates in our news, or on twitter.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• I get an error during bower install. What can I do?
  We heard that bower install can fail, if your server is behind a firewall which does not allow git:// URLs. The error looks like this:

bower openproject-ui\_components\#with-bower ECMDERR Failed to execute “git ls-remote —tags —heads git://github.com/opf/openproject-ui\_components.git”, exit code of \#128

Additional error details:  
fatal: unable to connect to github.com:  
github.com\[0: 192.30.252.131\]: errno=Connection refused

npm ERR\! OpenProject@0.1.0 postinstall: \`./node\_modules/bower/bin/bower install\`

The solution is to configure git to use https:// URLs instead of git:// URLs lke this:

git config —global url.“https://”.insteadOf git://

Questions, Comments, and Feedback

If you have any further questions, comments, feedback, or an idea to enhance this guide, please tell us at the appropriate community.openproject.org forum.