Has anyone upgraded from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server?
I have always heard upgrades on the server do not normally work out.
Thoughts?
SL to Lion was pretty bad for me, so I was incredibly skeptical with the update from Lion to ML. I waited for OS X 10.8.3 and Server 2.2.1 before I made the jump, and it upgraded just fine. There were a couple issues with my amavisd.conf settings not getting migrated, but I just hand edited it again to restore my settings (Server.app saved my old config file for easy reference). There were also a couple minor website issues, and I ended up just nuking my apache settings and starting fresh without any problems (I had a rather complex hand-configured apache setup, so I expected that there would be issues there).
I've since updated the OS to 10.8.4 and 10.8.5 without any issue and will be doing this Server upgrade later tonight without much worry.
Still, I think I'll wait for Mavericks 10.9.2 and Server 3.1 (or whatever the ".1" server update will be) before I migrate my server to Mavericks (just in case).
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I had an absolutely catastrophic update when i attempted to go from Snow Leopard to Lion:
did you know that when you update to Lion Server, it *removes* all your web sites? and PHP? That there is no longer any way to maintain virtual hosts? That even configuring them via command line is near impossible, even for a veteran unix guru?
So my Q is, is all this fixed?
Lion's Server.app was quite limited, but you still had support for virtual hosts on the system (I forget if it was exposed in Server.app or Server Admin.app on Lion). I know ML's Server.app is *MUCH* better than Lion's, and it certainly allows configuration of virtual hosts from within the app.