EA4 migration and potential ruby/rails/passenger issues

[tomdchi]

I am really wanting to pull the trigger on migrating one of our servers to EA4 but would like to be prepared for potential issues. Ruby, Rails 4, and Phusion Passenger were manually installed on this server so we could use Redmine.
I am betting that I will need to reinstall the apache module for passenger but will migrating mess anything up with ruby or rails?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Could you let us know what method you used to complete the installation on EasyApache 3? Note that you may want to consider purchasing CloudLinux, as it offers Mod Passenger support for EA4:

alt-mod-passenger for EasyApache 4 updated

Thank you.

 

[tomdchi]

Hello,

Could you let us know what method you used to complete the installation on EasyApache 3? Note that you may want to consider purchasing CloudLinux, as it offers Mod Passenger support for EA4:

alt-mod-passenger for EasyApache 4 updated

Thank you.

I ended up just doing it the normal way, i.e.

/scripts/migrate_ea3_to_ea4 --run


Everything worked OK and migrating did not mess up anything with Phusion Passenger or Ruby. I might add that I use RVM (Ruby Version Manager) to install and update Ruby. Not sure if that matters or not.

I did have some custom user Apache includes that needed to be manually moved to new location. The migration does not do this automatically. I knew this before migration but what I did not know is where to put them after migration. I could not find anything in the docs that said where the new location should be. I might be somewhere and I just missed it. Anyway, i finally figured it out and user account includes should go in:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/std/2_4/<user account>/user conf.conf
/etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/ssl/2_4/<user account>/user conf.conf


The migration will also not move over any Apache includes (Pre main, Pre virtualhost, and Post virtualhost). These need to be set again after migration.

 

[cPanelMichael]

I could not find anything in the docs that said where the new location should be. I might be somewhere and I just missed it. Anyway, i finally figured it out and user account includes should go in:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/std/2_4/<user account>/user conf.conf
/etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/ssl/2_4/<user account>/user conf.conf

This path is referenced on the "Advanced Apache Configuration" document for EA4. You may find additional information on this document helpful:

Advanced Apache Configuration - EasyApache 4 - cPanel Documentation

Thank you.