Hello Everyone,

It took me some digging around on how to upgrade my behind October build to the latest installment on the new PHP7. I'm posting the steps it took me to update October to 1) maybe help someone else get it working and 2) if someone can else can help me understand this process better, say if there is a security risk by upgrading October CMS this way, I dont know. And by no means am I an expert at this command line stuff. Anyways, here are my findings:

Trough the command line....

UPGRADE TO PHP 7.2

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.2

Switching PHP Versions

restart required

sudo a2dismod php5
sudo a2enmod php7.2

RESTART APACHE

sudo service apache2 restart

As soon as I did this, my site broke.

MCRYPT

actually not sure if you need this since we are no longer using MCRYPT. This was just part of my notes...

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.2-mcrypt sudo apt-get upgrade

INSTALL CURL

sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl

INSTALL ZIP ARCHIVES

sudo apt-get install php7.2-zip

UPDATE PHP FOR MYSQL

sudo apt-get install php7.2-mysql

Install xml reader for Rain Labs's blog plugin

sudo apt-get install php-xml

UPDATE OCTOBER BUILD

(In /your directory) you will need to run this twice in a row, as it will fail the first time around

sudo php artisan october:update

UPDATE THE STORAGE PERMISSIONS

(In /your directory)

sudo chmod -R 777 storage/

UPDATE THE ENCRYPTION KEY IN config/app.php FILE.

I had to change the actual lines of code. I went online to generate a AES-256-CBC code. the code to use is 32 in length, as it may generate other combinations.

'key' => "[32 character encryption]",

'cipher' => 'AES-256-CBC',

and that was it. You might run into missing modules if you have plugins, but you can apt-get them. If your site is still broken, you can turn on the bebug log in the config and hopefully see what else you are missing.

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