Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04

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Hello all,

For anyone interested, upgrading to the newest Ubuntu 24.04 release causes some minor issues due to changes and updates to php8.3 as well as php-fpm. It is relatively easy to fix, but took me about 90 minutes to chase down where the errors were coming from. Initially, I had a black screen when going to the web interface and the mobile app only displayed the spinning wheel. I ended up discovering the error in the debug console in Firefox.

  • Reinstall all php modules to php8.3 versions (older versions were automatically removed during upgrade - which was clearly noted in the upgrade logs)
  • Move any custom php config files from php8.1 to php8.3
  • Remove all of php8.1 (or older) and modules (as mentioned, this was automatically done during upgrade for me, but source folders needed to be removed)
  • Edit your nginx or apache2 config file to direct to php8.3-fpm.sock and not an older version
  • systemctl reload nginx (or apache2)

I hope this helps.

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Hi,

Thanks for sharing this!

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I just wanted to add an update to this. After attempting to update to latest IN (v5.8.53-C157 as of writing this) today, I discovered that unzip, composer, and php-cli were also automatically removed during the upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 and needed to be reinstalled. I should note this is primarily relevant for those using the zip file method of installing IN.

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