Hi, total SuiteCRM noob here, so apologies if I’m fumbling around a bit here.
I’ve just inherited what was an udocumented SuiteCRM 7.1 install on a CentOS 6.9 server that has been “broken” for the last 11 months as nobody could access it. Turns out that it was an issue with PHP and LDAP and after a few days of messing about I found and fixed the LDAP settings in the db after working out how to access MySQL (yuck; any plans to support PostgreSQL?).
I’ve brought CentOS up to something vaguely current and upgraded to PHP 5.6.40 (from 5.4.x) as this seemed the safest bet from a regression testing point of view and seemed to be supported by even the most up to date SuiteCRM release and have gone through the various SuiteCRM upgrades to get me to 7.8.31 without issue (or at least none that I can see).
I’d now like to upgrade to the current LTS version and gave it a try last night but just got a blank screen in the upgrade wizard when I tried on the cloned test server I’m playing around with. I notice, on the download page, that there is something called the “SUITECRM UPGRADE PATCH” that claims to fix upgrade issues prior to upgrading. Sounds useful but what do I do with it? I’ve downloaded it and it seems to follow a similar format to the main upgrades but if I try to load it through the upgrade wizard, the wizard just rejects it. Should I be unzipping it into the web server root or similar? Is it even necessary?
Any other gotcha’s that I’m likely to run into finishing this off?
Thanks for any advice. Matt