Upgrade

The rdmo package can be conveniently upgraded using the pip command. However, before you perform any changes to your installation, please backup the important components to a save location.

A PostgreSQL or MySQL database can be database can be dumped into a file using:

pg_dump [DBNAME] > rdmo.sql  # PostgreSQL
mysqldump -uroot -p [DBNAME] > rdmo.sql

Your rdmo-app directory (including any sqlite3 database) can be copied using the usual commands. Note that your virtual environment will not work after being moved to a different path.

In order to upgrade your RDMO installation go to your rdmo-app directory, activate your virtual environment, and upgrade the rdmo package using pip:

pip install --upgrade rdmo

In order to install a specific version (e.g. 0.9.0) of RDMO use:

pip install --upgrade rdmo==0.9.0

After the upgrade a database migration might be necessary:

python manage.py migrate

Sometimes, the static vendor files need to be downloaded again:

python manage.py download_vendor_files

In any case you have to deploy the changes:

python manage.py deploy

The last three commands can be combined using:

python manage.py upgrade

Please check the release notes if this, or other, steps are necessary.

Upgrade to version 0.9.0

With version 0.9.0 we introduced the split into the rdmo-app and the centrally maintained rdmo package. Therefore a few additional steps are needed to upgrade any earlier version to 0.9.0 or beyond:

  1. In any case perform a backup of your rdmo directory and your database as described above.

  2. Perform the steps described in clone and packages as if you would install a new instance of RDMO.

  3. Copy your old configuration from /path/to/old/rdmo/rdmo/settings/local.py to /path/to/new/rdmo-app/config/settings/local.py. The new config directory replaces the old rdmo directory.

  4. If you already have a theme directory, copy it into the new rdmo-app folder.

  5. Run a database migration (Unless you skipped several versions, the output should be No migrations to apply.):

    python manage.py migrate

  6. Download the front-end files from the CDN. We don’t use bower and npm anymore.

    python manage.py download_vendor_files

  7. Update the path to the wsgi.py script in your Apache or nginx configuration. It is now under /path/to/new/rdmo-app/config/wsgi.py.

  8. Redeploy RDMO as described under deployment of Apache or Nginx.

If you have trouble with the upgrade process, don’t hesitate to contact the RDMO team for support.

Upgrade to version 0.14

With version 0.14 the Python 2 support was dropped and we swiched to Django 2.2. This demands two changes to the local rdmo-app:

  • Adjust RDMO app’s config/urls.py to Django2 schemes. The file is much simpler and shorter now. A working example can be found at https://github.com/rdmorganiser/rdmo-app/blob/master/config/urls.py
  • MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in config/settings/local.py needs to be renamed to MIDDLEWARE only