[horde] Upgrade from H5 to H6

[Simon B]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 00:23, Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com> wrote:
>
>   Quoting Andreas Mauser <andreas at mauser.info>:
>
> > Dear Team,
> >
> > is it today possible to upgrade a H5 to a H6 without new install?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Andreas, and a happy new year!
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> The way I did it was to install the new H6 bits into a new directory.
> I use a mysql database; so, I then configure the new H6 installation
> to use the existing mysql and upon first admin access, it'll prompt to
> update the db schema. Seems to run fine after that for me. I would
> highly suggest making a backup of the database in case something
> doesn't go right. One then needs to repoint the webserver to the new
> root dir and you should be set. Addresses, contacts, notes, and such
> are all retained for each user, in my experience.
>
> I would suggest testing this on a parallel installation, if possible.

I have kept this mail for sometime wanting to answer in the same vein.

I have just done so in a separate thread.

Not included in those instructions was an instruction to run

sudo -u www-data composer horde-reconfigure


if you copy over application config files.

Hope this helps.

Simon