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itiligent / Guacamole-Installer

Automated install of Gucamole with options for HTTPS reverse proxy, Active Directory integration, MFA, LetsEncrypt, dark theme, MySQL backup, email alerts & more.
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Can this update MysticRyuujin / guac-install ? #27

Closed bradgillap closed 12 months ago

bradgillap commented 12 months ago

More of a question than a feature but I have some existing installs with quite a few users I'd rather not have to rebuild from scratch.

Is it possible to update an existing install on 1.4 series to 1.5 with this?

bradgillap commented 12 months ago

Nevermind I see the upgrade-guac.sh here and tried it. It works.

itiligent commented 12 months ago

Thanks Brad , for others reading this:

All things being equal it will work. I've tested upgrades with 1.4x to 1.5x and it works fine, but that equal statement needs a bit more context...

The build & upgrade scripts are based closely on the generic build intructions provided by Apache and was originally inspired by the earlier MysticRyuujin repo. I've added a great deal of packaging around these of course.

There are many changes and simplifications in my repo comapred to MysticRyuujin, as well as support for later Debian flavours, but the end product still gives compatible settings and parameters under MOST situtuations....

There are a few areas to be careful of. The old MysticRyuujin script offered a choice of older mariaDB connectors which made life a bit more complex between various distros. I took the approach to standardise on one (more stable and univesal ) MySQL conector/j. I've also added options for offical MySQL or distro provided MySQL database packages, and the distro packages are the default .

Database schema changes don't look to have happended since a very long way back (but this is a thing to check for in each new release source). The script should handle this in any event, but there has been nothing to test with on that front for a long time.

So, as long as the original install was not deviated from the common install paths, user names, ports, passwords, permissions and packages etc as set out in both approaches then it shoud work ok. Some double checking via some package recon and sql schema update checks before you start will of course save a lot of pain later! Review the scripts before you run them and always test though.

A final thought: The other add scripts in this repo should also be compatible too.