Upgrading from 5.2 to 5.4

Note on Paths

• /<ezp5-root>/: The root directory where eZ Publish 5 is installed in, examples: "/home/myuser/www/" or "/var/sites/ezpublish/"
• /<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/:  Root directory of "Legacy" (aka "Legacy Stack", refers to the eZ Publish 4.x installation which is bundled with eZ Publish 5) normally inside "ezpublish_legacy/", example: "/home/myuser/www/ezpublish_legacy/"

Check for requirements

PHP 5.4.4 and higher is needed. Further information regarding system requirements can be found on Requirements Documentation Page.

Upgrade steps

Step 1: Upgrade the legacy distribution files

The easiest way to upgrade the distribution files is to unpack eZ Publish 5.4 to a separate directory and then copy the directories that contain site-specific files from the existing 5.2 installation into "/<ezp5-root>/". Make sure you copy the following directories:

• ezpublish_legacy/design/<your designs> (do NOT include built-in designs: admin, base, standard or admin2)
• ezpublish_legacy/var/<your_var_dir>/storage
• ezpublish_legacy/var/storage/packages
• ezpublish_legacy/settings/siteaccess/<your_siteaccesses>
• ezpublish_legacy/settings/override/*
• ezpublish_legacy/extension/* (not including the built-in / standalone ones: ezflow, ezjscore, ezoe, ezodf, ezie, ezmultiupload, ezmbpaex, ez_network, ezprestapiprovider, ezscriptmonitor, ezsi, ezfind)
• src/
• ezpublish_legacy/config.php & ezpublish_legacy/config.cluster.php, if applicable
• ezpublish/config/*

NB: Since writable directories and files have been replaced / copied, their permissions might have changed. You may have to reconfigure webserver user permissions on specific folders as explained in the file permissions chapter of the installation process.

Step 2: upgrade custom legacy extensions

If you are using custom extensions, the sub-directories inside the "extension" directory will also have to be copied from the existing 5.2 installation into "/<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/extension/". However, make sure that you do not overwrite any extensions that are included in eZ Publish distribution, which currently are (Note: In eZ Publish Platform 5.4, extensions have version number 5.3 with exception of ezdemo, ezoe, ezformtoken, ezjscore and ezfind):

Note that upgrading the distribution files will overwrite the autoload arrays for extensions. You will need to re-generate the autoload arrays for active extensions later.

Important: If you plan to upgrade your eZ Website Interface, eZ Flow or eZ Demo site package as well, then additional extensions will be updated and the step for re-generate the autoload arrays can be skipped until that is done (links to documentation for upgrading these site packages can be found in the last step of this page).

Step 3: upgrade the database

Import to your database the changes provided in

/<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/update/database/<mysql|postgresql>/5.3/dbupdate-5.2.0-to-5.3.0.sql
and
/<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/update/database/<mysql|postgresql>/5.4/dbupdate-5.3.0-to-5.4.0.sql

If the installation is using the DFS cluster, import the cluster database changes provided in
/<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/update/database/mysql/5.4/dbupdate-cluster-5.3.0-to-5.4.0.sql

Update the database/repository configuration

ezpublish.system.<siteAccessName>.database has been removed for defining database settings. You now need to:

• Define a Doctrine connection

  MySQL settings : ezpublish.yml or config.yml
  PostGreSQL : ezpublish.yml or config.yml  Expand source

  Pro Tip

  Set your base DB params in your parameters.yml/parameters.yml.dist and refer them here.
  parameters.yml
  ezpublish.yml / config.yml

• Define one or several repositories

  ezpublish.yml

• (Optional) Make your SiteAccess config point to the right repository

  ezpublish.yml  Expand source

   

   

  Remove the old connection information

  Note : to benefit from the new configuration, don't forget to remove the old configuration

  Old database access to remove

Step 4: Apply 5.4 configuration changes

YAML files

Since default configuration files have been overwritten during step one, the few additions to those files that were made in 5.2 need to be applied manually to the configuration files.
All of those changes are additions, none of them replaces what you already have.

For most of them, at least one, if not all hierarchy elements (monolog, handler, framework, router...) will already be there. All you have to do is add the missing bits in the existing configuration blocks.

In ezpublish/config/config.yml, you need to add a few default values for the framework

ezpublish/config/config.yml 

trusted_hosts has been changed and session.handler_id is added to the framework block making Symfony pick what has been configured in PHP instead.

Additionally configuration for swift_mailer has been added:

ezpublish/config/config_dev.yml

In framework, set router.strict_requirements to true.

ezpublish/config/config_prod.yml

Remove framework.router.strict_requirements.

ezpublish/config/routing.yml

Add new login routes, _ezpublishRestOptionsRouter route loader, and and _liip_imagine:

ezpublish/config/security.yml

Under ezpublish_front firewall, update to fit the following (be sure to remove ezpublish: true):

ezpublish/config/parameters.yml.dist

If you have added anything to parameters.yml, we suggest that you add your custom settings to parameters.yml.dist, so that the composer post-update script handles those, and generates their values correctly.

ezpublish_legacy.default.view_default_layout can be removed from this file, and the following added:

composer will ask for your own values when you run composer update.

ezpublish/config/ezpublish*.yml

In all ezpublish.yml files (prod, dev, etc), replace the "handlers" key in stash.caches.* with "drivers".

ezpublish.system.<siteAccessName>.session_name has been deprecated for defining session name. You now need to use ezpublish.system.<siteAccessName>.session.name.

Before:

After: 

Templates

In your templates, change your links pointing to /user/login and /user/logout to appropriate login / login_check / logout routes:

ezpublish/EzPublishKernel.php

It is not possible to just copy your old EzPublishKernel.php file over from the previous installation, since quite a few changes were made to this file in this release. We suggest that you simply reflect in the new kernel file any changes you made in the previous version.

composer.json

If you had modified composer.json to add your own requirements, you must re-apply those changes to the new version.

Varnish (if applicable)

The recommended varnish (3 and 4) VCL configuration can now be found in the doc/varnish folder. See also the Using Varnish page.

Anonymous state of a user is not checked through presence of is_logged_in cookie any more. Therefore, when using Varnish, you must change the following in your VCL file:

Update the DFS cluster configuration

If your legacy installation uses DFS clustering, you need to create the new stack configuration for it.

Web server configuration

The officially recommended virtual configuration is now shipped in the doc folder, for both apache2 (doc/apache2) and nginx (doc/nginx). Both are built to be easy to understand and use, but aren't meant as drop-in replacements for your existing configuration.

One notable change is that SetEnvIf is now used to dynamically change rewrite rules depending on the Symfony environment. It is currently used for the assetic production rewrite rules.

Read more on the Web servers page.

Step 5: Run composer update

Run composer update --no-dev --prefer-dist to get the latest eZ Publish dependencies.

At the end of the process, you will be asked for values for the parameters previously added to parameters.yml.dist.

Step 6: Regenerate the autoload array for extensions

To regenerate the autoload array, execute the following script from the root of your eZ Publish Legacy directory:

Step 7: Link assets

Assets from the various bundles need to be made available for the webserver through the web/ document root.

The following commands will first symlink eZ Publish 5 assets in "Bundles" and the second will symlink assets (design files like images, scripts and css, and files in var folder)  from eZ Publish Legacy:

Step 8: Clear the caches

Whenever an eZ Publish solution is upgraded, all caches must be cleared in a proper way. This should be done from within a system shell:
Navigate into the new eZ Publish directory.Run the script using the following shell command:cd /<ezp5-root>/ezpublish_legacy/php bin/php/ezcache.php --clear-all --purgePurging ensures that the caches are physically removed. When the "--purge" parameter is not specified, the caches will be expired but not removed.
Note: Sometimes the script is unable to clear all cache files because of restrictive file/directory permission settings. Make sure that all cache files have been cleared by inspecting the contents of the various cache sub-directories within the "var" directory (typically the "var/cache/" and "var/<name_of_siteaccess>/cache/" directories). If there are any cache files left, you need to remove them manually.

Step 9: Upgrade Extensions (site package)

Next, depending on if you originally installed eZ Flow, eZ Webin or eZ Demo site, follow the steps mentioned in the eZ Webin, eZ Flow or eZ Demo upgrade documentation.

Minor Versions Update Warning

Please have in mind that, after the upgrade to a major version of eZ Publish, you will need to perform regular updates with composer.

Before any minor update with composer, please execute all require steps described in the 5.4.x Update Instructions.