Upgrading an existing Linux v0.2.X installation to v3.1.1¶

Note

This guide assumes you have at least a basic level of familiarity with Linux and the command line.

This document will walk you through migrating an existing v0.2.X version of QATrack+ to a new Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 20.04 server. Although it may be possible, upgrading an Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 16.04 installation in place is not recommended. This guide assumes you are moving to a new server. If you need advice please get in touch on the mailing list.

On your old server¶

The first step to migrating your existing QATrack+ installation is to generate the backup files to move everything to your new server.

Backup your QATrack+ install data¶

The process to generate and restore a database dump may vary depending on how you have things configured, your operating system version, or the version of database software you are using. The steps below can be used as a guide, but they may need to be tweaked for your particular installation.

Note

We will assume you are currently using a database named ‘qatrackplus’ but if not (check the DATABASE settings in qatrack/local_settings.py) replace ‘qatrackplus’ in the instructions below with your database name (e.g. qatrackdb).

# postgres
sudo -u postgres pg_dump -d qatrackplus > backup-0.2.X.sql

# or for MySQL
mysqldump --user qatrack --password=qatrackpass qatrackplus > backup-0.2.X.sql

and create an archive of your uploads directory:

tar czf qatrack-uploads.tgz qatrack/media/uploads/

On your new server¶

Copy the backup-0.2.X.sql and qatrack-uploads.tgz to your new server, these will be needed below.

Prerequisites¶

Make sure your existing packages are up to date:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

You will need to have the make command and a few other packages available for this deployment. Install install them as follows:

sudo apt install make build-essential python-dev python3-dev python3-tk python3-venv

Installing a Database System¶

If you were using Postgres before, then install it again. Likewise, if your previous server was using a MySQL database, then install MySQL/MariaDB

Installing PostgreSQL (Only required if you were previously using Postgres)¶

If you do not have an existing database server, you will need to install PostgreSQL locally. Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev postgresql-client postgresql-client-common

Now edit /etc/postgresql/12/main/pg_hba.conf (use your favourite editor, e.g. sudo nano /etc/postgresql/12/main/pg_hba.conf (note, if you have a different version of Postgres installed, then you would need to change the 12 in that path e.g. /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf) and scroll down to the bottom and change the instances of peer to md5 so it looks like:

# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local   all             postgres                                peer

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
local   replication     all                                     md5
host    replication     all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
host    replication     all             ::1/128                 md5

and restart the pg server:

sudo service postgresql restart

Installing MySQL (Only required if you were previously using MySQL)¶

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev

Restoring your previous database¶

We can now restore your previous database:

sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE qatrackplus;"
sudo -u postgres psql -d qatrackplus < backup-0.2.X.sql
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE USER qatrack with PASSWORD 'qatrackpass';"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE qatrackplus to qatrack;"

# or for MySQL (omit the -p if your mysql installation doesn't require a password for root)
sudo mysql -p -e "CREATE DATABASE qatrackplus;"
sudo mysql -p --database=qatrackplus < backup-0.2.X.sql
sudo mysql -p -e "GRANT ALL ON qatrackplus.* TO 'qatrack'@'localhost';"

Now confirm your restore worked:

# postgres: Should show Count=1234 or similar
PGPASSWORD=qatrackpass psql -U qatrack -d qatrackplus -c "SELECT COUNT(*) from qa_testlistinstance;"

# mysql: Should show Count=1234 or similar
sudo mysql --password=qatrackpass --database qatrackplus -e "SELECT COUNT(*) from qa_testlistinstance;"

Assuming your database restoration was successful, you may now proceed with upgrading the database to v0.3.0.

Installing and configuring Git and checking out the QATrack+ Source Code¶

Ensure you have git installed with the following command:

sudo apt install git

and then configure git (substituting your name and email address!)

git config --global user.name "randlet"
git config --global user.email randy@multileaf.ca

Check out the QATrack+ source code from GitHub¶

Now that we have git installed we can proceed to grab the latest version of QATrack+. To checkout the code enter the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/web
cd web
git clone https://github.com/qatrackplus/qatrackplus.git
cd qatrackplus
git checkout v0.2.9.2

Restore your upload files¶

Assuming you are on a new server and have an uploads file that you want to restore you should do so now:

# assuming your qatrack-uploads.tgz is in your home directory

cd ~/web/qatrackplus
mv ~/qatrack-uploads.tgz .
sudo tar xzf qatrack-uploads.tgz

Use your favourite text editor to create a local_settings.py file in ~/web/qatrackplus/qatrack/ with the following contents:

# for postgres
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'qatrackplus',
        'USER': 'qatrack',
        'PASSWORD': 'qatrackpass',
        'HOST': '',  # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
        'PORT': '',  # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    },
}

# or for mysql
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'qatrackplus',
        'USER': 'qatrack',
        'PASSWORD': 'qatrackpass',
        'HOST': '',  # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
        'PORT': '',  # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    },
}

Setting up our Python environment (including virtualenv)¶

If you have a v0.2.9 database, you will only need a Python 3 installation, however if you have an older QATrack+ installation, you will also require Python 2.7. If you have a v0.2.9 database, you can skip this next section.

Migrating 0.2.X (where X < 9) to v0.2.9¶

First install virtualenv, then create and activate a new Python 2 environment:

cd ~/web/qatrackplus
sudo apt install python-virtualenv
mkdir -p ~/venvs
virtualenv -p python2 ~/venvs/qatrack2
source ~/venvs/qatrack2/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

Now install the required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements/base.txt
# for postgres
pip install psycopg2-binary
# for mysql
pip install mysqlclient

Now migrate your database to v0.2.9

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

and deactivate the virtualenv

deactivate

Migrating 0.2.9 to 0.3.0¶

Check out QATrack+ version 0.3.0¶

In order to upgrade our 0.2.9 installation to 0.3.0, first we need to checkout the QATrack+ v0.3.0 source code:

cd ~/web/qatrackplus
git checkout v0.3.0.19

Creating our virtual environment¶

Create and activate a new Python 3 virtual environment:

mkdir -p ~/venvs
python3 -m venv ~/venvs/qatrack3
source ~/venvs/qatrack3/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

We will now install all the libraries required for QATrack+ with PostgresSQL (be patient, this can take a few minutes!):

# for postgres
pip install -r requirements/postgres.txt

# or for MySQL:
pip install -r requirements/mysql.txt

Migrating the 0.2.9 database to 0.3.0¶

We are now ready to migrate our 0.2.9 database to v0.3.0:

python manage.py migrate --fake-initial

Installing Apache web server and mod_wsgi¶

The next step to take is to install and configure the Apache web server. Apache and mod_wsgi can be installed with the following commands:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-dev libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 python3-dev

Now we can remove the default Apache config file and copy over the QATrack+ config file:

Danger

If you already have other sites running using the default config file you will want to edit it to include the directives relevant to QATrack+ rather than deleting it. Seek help if you’re unsure!

make qatrack_daemon.conf
sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

and finally restart Apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

Next Steps¶

Now that you have upgraded to 0.3.0, you should proceed directly to upgrading to v3.1.1 from v0.3.0;