Best Way to migrate to V5

Self-Hosted | v5
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@ben I was set to clean, and was migrated to plain.

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Thanks for the feedback, this is a really great point. I’ll have a look at this and let you know.

Cheers :+1:

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@david

I had to reset my V5 installation, as i was not able to login at all after upgrading to 5.0.39.
I used this command:
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Then ran the setup and initiated the migration again from v4 (upgraded to the latest as well) all migration happened successfully with no issues, however i have the follwing:

  • The additional users in the V4, i can not edit this at all, i am getting the grey blank screen when i try to edit. Also i only can see the Dashboard/Reports/ and Settings when i login with the additional user.
  • I am getting the following error when i try to open pdf invoice:
    [2020-12-23 22:16:18] production.ERROR: Class ‘Beganovich\Snappdf\Snappdf’ not found {“userId”:1,“exception”:"[object] (Error(code: 0): Class ‘Beganovich\Snappdf\Snappdf’ not found at /var/www/html/ninja5/app/Utils/Traits/Pdf/PdfMaker.php:30)
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@hillel tag for edit user

@ben tag for snap

@gerootech you’ll need to run the following command

vendor/bin/snappdf download

this will download the chrome package for you.

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@david
The command couldn’t be found in vendor/bin folder.

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@gerootech you may need to run composer update to bring in the package.

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@david, thanks this fixed it.

another note though, when i am using https to view access my invoiceninja v5 and try to view the pdf invoice i get the following error in my browser console:

main.dart.js?v=5.0.39:68567 Mixed Content: The page at ‘https://in5.ghf.loc/#/’ was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint ‘http://in5.ghf.loc/client/invoice/k8RLqIABP9RSiN2c1tOupfPferJD7AQGQFXAiCvUklwEOmSuhNMG3bR7iy2JsduW/download’. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

i cannot view it unless i use http instead.

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When logged in as the primary user is the second user shown as an admin on Settings > User Management?

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When i log in with the primary user, i can see the user under settings, user management, but i cannot tel of it is admin or not.

When i try to edit the user it shows blank grey page.

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Thanks, I see the same error. We’ll work on a fix.

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@david and @hillel

I am trying to upgrade through the gui to the v5.0.40 from 5.0.39 but it is failing and i am getting the following error:
[2020-12-24 19:11:35] production.INFO: Are there changes to pull? 1
[2020-12-24 19:11:41] production.INFO: Command 'git pull ’ failed (exit-code 1).

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@gerootech

This sounds like permissions may have changed in your repository.

from the command like try this

sudo -u www-data git pull

This will give you more information on why the update command couldn’t run.

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@david
I got the following:

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects
fatal: failed to write object
fatal: unpack-objects failed

so i ran chown -R www-data on the ninja v5 folder

then i tried to do udpate from the gui again. I tells me that the update is successful but still getting the warning that there is a new version.

when i do the git pull through the command line now i get the following:

Updating 28e4a00644…8e8f84d069
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
composer.lock
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

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this has probably happened due to the previous composer update you ran… try the following

sudo -u www-data git stash
sudo -u www-data git pull
sudo -u composer install --no-dev
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this did the update, but still gui says i am on v5.0.39, no matter what browser i am using, so it is not caching. and i cleared the browser history and still the same.

when i cat VERSION, it gives me 5.0.40, and when i try sudo -u www-data git pull says i am all up to date.

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There is a daily cron which checks the version number, it sounds like it just hasn’t run yet.

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@hillel,

i can see now in 5.0.41 the user issue is fixed. Thanks, now i am able to edit my user and assigned admin rights.

Was wondering, what new pdf generation that is included in 5.0.41 ??

Also i did new migration from v4.5.25 to 5.0.41 and all invoices migrated as DRAFT invoices.

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Great, glad to hear it!

The new PDF renderer uses headless Chrome and is much faster.

We plan to release a new v4 today with a fix.

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I just tried 4.5.26, and still got the invoices as draft as well

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I believe this may also require a fix in v5, please retest with the next release.

Thanks again for your patience, I think we’re close…