How to Update v4 to v5 on selfhosting

Self-Hosted | v5
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I’m using v4.5.34 on selfhosed webserver (without sudo).
How it will be possible for upgrade to v5.1.32?

When I only change the folder with copy “.env” it don’t work.
Can you please send me a step-by-step information to upgrade.

2

Hi,

Are there any errors in the web server error logs or the application logs in storage/logs/

Which version of PHP are you using? The latest v4 versions support PHP 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.

3

PHP is running with 7.3 and there will be “error 500” by login:

production.ERROR: Trying to get property 'id' of non-object {"userId":1,"exception":"[object] (ErrorException(code: 0): Trying to get property 'id' of non-object at /html/ninja-4-5-34-DEV/app/Models/User.php:162)

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I found “Start Migration” under account management, but this also don’t work:
Cross account migration is not allowed. Please read more about it here: https://invoiceninja.github.io/cross-site-migration.html
But this link also don’t work (error 404): https://invoiceninja.github.io/cross-site-migration.html

5

I use multiple accounts. Is this no longer possible with v5 and is that the problem?
grafik

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To upgrade from v4 you need to install v5 as a separate app and then use the migration tool in the latest version of v4 on Settings > Account Management.

v4 supported up to 5 companies, v5 supports up to 10.

Note: the latest v4 version is v4.5.35.

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So you can not update the existing application but must migrate to a new one?
So the URL also changes?

Do I understand it correctly:

  1. update v4.5.34 to v4.5.35
  2. installation v5.1.32
  3. migration v4.5.35 → v5.1.32
  4. change domain to v5.1.32
8

That is correct

v5 is a complete rewrite from scratch, we’ve tried to keep the database as similar as possible but it wouldn’t be possible to update as the system requirements are different.

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But it don’t work!
I get the following error by migration to new site:

production.ERROR: ***ErrorException*** [0] : /html/ninja-4-5-35-DEV/app/Http/Controllers/Migration/StepsController.php [Line 262] => ZipArchive::close(): Failure to create temporary file: No such file or directory {"context":"PHP","user_id":1,"account_id":1,"user_name":"XXX","method":"POST","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0","locale":"de","ip":"45.155.143.21","count":3,"is_console":"no","is_api":"no","db_server":"mysql","url":"migration/companies
"} []
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Maye this will help?

11

OK, the folder “migrations” was missing. Now the migration seems to run. I am curious.

12

Witch crons I need?

On v4 I was using the following two crons:
php artisan ninja:send-invoices
php artisan ninja:send-reminders

But in v5 these no longer exist. Therefore the question, which crons must run?

13

There’s info about the v5 crons here:

https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/self-host-installation/

14

I would really like to keep working with Invoice Ninja, but the migration is not fun because it doesn’t work.
A zip file is created but not imported.

How can the data now be imported in the new version?

15

Have you seen the info here:

https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/migration/#troubleshooting

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I give it up and will work so long it will be possible with v4.

  • directories are read/writable
  • table " jobs" is empty
  • There is no entry in “laravel.log”
  • Error: “400: Die “White-Label”-Lizenz ist nicht gültig”
  • “EXPANDED_LOGGING=true” is set

If I found time I’l looking for a other system or put all data manual in v5.
In the moment I’ve no fun with v5, so I will delete it.
Anyway, thanks for trying and have another good time.

17

@david any ideas?

FYI… we’ll be release new v4/v5 versions soon with more fixes to the migration.

18

That still raises some hope. Until when are these available?

19

Should be in a few days

20

@RoundAboutWEB

When you attempt a migration, are there any error messages in your V5 installation in storage/logs/laravel.log ?