Updating Plesk

Are you running Plesk on CentOS 7 or are you getting an outdated MySQL server notification on your WordPress website? This article will show you how you can update Plesk in a variety of ways.

Prerequisites

For future notice, the Plesk changelog can be found at docs.plesk.com.

Update Plesk on CentOS 7

Plesk is a package installed with the OS, to update it on CentOS 7 run the following command. Take note that this will also update other packages on your system.

yum update

If you also want to remove obsolete packages run the following command.

yum upgrade

Once updated you can perform a clean using the command below.

yum clean all

It is recommended to reboot your system after updating it to ensure that all systems are working properly.

Update MySQL 5.5 to 10.5

In case you are running WordPress on your Plesk instance and it reports that your MySQL server is out of date, it might be time for an upgrade! To check your current MySQL version use the following command.

mysql --version

If this version is 5.5 we can use the following command to upgrade the MySQL server to 10.5. Keep in mind that your mileage may vary for different MySQL versions.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plesk/kb-scripts/master/c7-mariadb-10-5-upgrade/c7-mariadb-10-5-upgrade.sh && chmod +x c7-mariadb-10-5-upgrade.sh && ./c7-mariadb-10-5-upgrade.sh

If you prefer to perform the steps manually instead of running a script from the internet have a look at the article at support.plesk.com.

Sources

• Update Plesk on CentOS 7
  • In CentOS, what is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade? (unix.stackexchange.com)
• Update MySQL 5.5 to 10.5
  • How to upgrade MySQL 5.5 to 5.6/5.7 or MariaDB 5.5 to 10.x on Linux? (support.plesk.com)
  • plesk/kb-scripts (github.com)