Unable to update scotchbox 3.0 =» 3.5

[Niwt]

First of all: Thanks for this amazing LAMP-Stack!

Using scotch box for a very long time, I'm having 10-15 projects using scotchbox 3.0. Therefore I'm having many VMs. I want to update to ScotchBox 3.5 without loosing all the databases, so I'd like to update without destroying the VMs. When following the update-article on scotch.io i get this error:

==> default: Checking for updates to 'scotch/box'
default: Latest installed version: 3.0
default: Version constraints: 
default: Provider: virtualbox
There was an error while downloading the metadata for this box.
The error message is shown below:

The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

Where does this come from?

I guess re-installing vagrant/virtualbox should help right? But that means backing up 15databases etc. There should be a way to update the VMs the regular way, right?

[whatnickcodes]

I would not update without backing up all databases first. Then can you update Vagrant and VirtualBox?

Also HashiCorp did a URL change without a redirect hence the 404. https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box/issues/367

So:

• Either reinstall
• Delete al meta (vagrand.d)
• Add "Vagrant::DEFAULT_SERVER_URL.replace('https://vagrantcloud.com')"

[flurinduerst]

Hi Niwt

As Nick said, never update without backing up your database! As a general note: when creating an issue, please provide your version of vagrant and virtualbox. (you should keep them up to date btw.).

To update an existing environment to ScotchBox 3.5, this worked for me:

• backup database
• Delete all metadata by deleting vagrand.d
• add Vagrant::DEFAULT_SERVER_URL.replace('https://vagrantcloud.com') to the Vagrantfile.
• vagrant box add scotch/box
• import database

So, vagrant box add scotch/box for me, was working perfectly fine and downloaded ScotchBox 3.5 from https://vagrantcloud.com/scotch/box.

Note: This will create a new VM! (which is intended)

When starting vagrant and connecting via ssh by vagrant ssh you can check if you're on ScotchBox 3.5 with lsb_release -a. If you see Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS you're on the latest (free) Version of Scotch Box :)

Note: you can also use vagrant box list to see what versions you have installed.

[flurinduerst]

Also: if you have multiple VMs, for the following ones after this first one you only have to:

• backup database
• Delete all metadata by deleting vagrand.d
• vagrant up (this will create he VM)
• import the database

and you're good to go with a new VM running Scotch Box 3.5