Update from 8.3.1 to 8.8 in shared hosting

hello everyone, unfortunately I’m having a hard time trying to upgrade from 8.3.1 to 8.8.0 because everything is on shared hosting and I don’t have access to the cli.
does anyone have any procedure to be able to upgrade without cli?
also searching on the internet I saw that in previous versions there was the update wizard but that it has now been removed in version 8, wouldn’t there be a possibility to reactivate it?

Hello Matix,

Hope you are doing well.

I am not sure its possible because you need to import the zip file with the update onto the machine and run the commands on the cli, i never upgraded using the web wizard but i dont think its possible anymore.

Hello Matix,

I guess the easiest way to do an upgrade in that situation would be to:

  • Download SQL dump and webspace
  • Deploy / setup things locally somehow (VirtualBox with UbuntuServer is quite easy)
  • In order to do some easy testing, point the domain to your VBox server via the hosts file
  • Do the upgrade in your VBox environment
  • Finish the testing with the upgraded version
  • Upload everything to the shared hosting environment

That has the big advantage that:

  • You would do the upgrade on a test / dev environment
  • You’d be able to follow the standard upgrade and not worry about server / hosting etc. issues (once everything is setup as required by the CRM)

Please do yourself a favor and consider changing hosting instead. It might seem more trouble now, but will eventually be a big time saver for you.

There are free hostings out there that offer CLI access, SSH… let alone paid hostings.

I would never, ever run a SuiteCRM server without CLI access. It’s just not that kind of app.

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