Upgrading from 5.3 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 5.3 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/*.yml

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 5.3 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>/5.4/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

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 5.3 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.

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 completely.

ezpublish/config/routing.yml

Add the liip imagine routes to the file:

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/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 update the new kernel file with any changes you made in the previous version.

New bundles in this version are EzPublishIOBundle, FOSHttpCacheBundle, LiipImagineBundle, WhiteOctoberBreadcrumbsBundle, KnpMenuBundle, OneupFlysystemBundle and SensioFrameworkExtraBundle.

composer.json

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

Note: Besides requirements changes there are also changes to other parts of composer.json, including improvements also found in 5.3.3 and 5.3.4.

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.

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.

Final step: web server rewrite rules

This is reflected in the apache2 and nginx configuration files that are shipped in the doc folder. The main change from legacy is that requests for images can now be rewritten to web/index.php instead of ezpublish_legacy/index_cluster.php.

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 --purge. Purging 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.

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.