MediaCP Manual
    1. Getting Started
    2. Sales Questions
    3. Frequently Asked Questions
    4. Transcoder System Benchmarks
    5. Start your own streaming platform
    1. Change account currency
    2. Product Licensing
    1. Introduction
    2. Installation & Upgrade
      1. System Requirements
      2. Versions & Releases
      3. Installation
      4. Upgrading
      5. Streaming Servers
        1. Nginx-Rtmp Video Server
        2. Wowza Streaming Engine
        3. Flussonic Media Server
        4. Video Feature Comparison
        5. Icecast 2 / Icecast KH
      6. SSL Certificates
    3. Billing Integration
      1. WHMCS Integration Guide
      2. Clientexec Integration Guide
      3. Blesta Integration Guide
      4. WiseCP Integration Guide
    4. Migrate from other software
      1. Migrate From Centovacast
      2. Migrate From AzuraCast
    5. Backup & Restoration
      1. Backup MediaCP
      2. Restore MediaCP
      3. Transfer to another server
    6. Administration
      1. MediaCP System Commands
      2. Admin Tools
      3. Custom Web Service Configurations
      4. Change MediaCP domain name
      5. Port 80 / 443 Proxy
      6. Move media to another hard disk
      7. Custom Language Translations
      8. Custom Facebook App
      9. Secure your server
      10. Setup CSF Firewall
      11. Troubleshooting Login Errors
      12. Reset Admin Password
    7. Scaling
      1. Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN
      2. Nginx-Rtmp with CloudFront CDN
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. Troubleshooting Liquidsoap AutoDJ
      2. Video Relay Troubleshooting
      3. Grant access to support team
      4. Troubleshooting Wowza Streaming Engine
      5. FTP Troubleshooting
      6. MySQL Database Troubleshooting
      7. Reporting Troubleshooting
    1. Introduction
    2. Administrators Dashboard
    3. System Configuration
      1. General
      2. Services
      3. Video Players
      4. Albums
      5. Email
      6. Plugins
      7. Statistics
      8. Backups
      9. Custom HTML
      10. Misc
    4. Customer Accounts
      1. Managing existing Customers
      2. Create a new Customer
      3. Deleting a Customer
      4. Login as another Customer
      5. Send email to Customer
      6. Reset Customer Password
    5. Reseller Accounts
      1. Reseller Plans
      2. Create a Reseller Account
    6. Administrator Accounts
      1. Create a new Administrator
    7. Media Services
      1. Creating a Media Service
      2. Deleting a Media Service
    8. Announcements
      1. Managing Announcements
      2. Creating Announcement
      3. Deleting Announcement
    9. Statistics
    10. Software Health
    11. Software Updates
    12. Email Templates
    13. API
    1. Introduction
    2. Audio Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Station Overview
      3. Media Library
      4. Playlists
        1. General Rotation
        2. Jingles & Advertising
        3. Scheduling
        4. Repeat Protection
      5. Live DJ Connections
      6. Live Stream Recording
      7. DJ Manager
      8. Country Blocking
      9. Fallback, Backup and Intro Files
      10. Stream Proxy
      11. Public Page
      12. HTML5 Player
      13. Stream Authentication
      14. Widgets & Links
      15. Reporting
    3. Video Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Service Overview
      3. File Manager
      4. Scheduling
      5. Stream Targets
      6. Streaming to Your Service
      7. GeoIP Country Locking
      8. Public Page
      9. Widgets & Links
      10. Reporting
    4. Reseller Operations Manual
      1. Reseller Dashboard
      2. Customers
      3. Media Services
    5. API
    1. Custom Domain Names
    2. Shoutcast 2 Admin Guide
    3. Wowza and Flussonic on same system
    4. Submit a feature request
    1. Getting started with Audio Streaming
    2. Icecast Live Broadcasting
    3. Shoutcast 2 Live Broadcasting
    4. Broadcasting with AutoDJ
    5. DJ Accounts
    6. GeoIP Country Locking
    7. HTML5 Audio Player
    8. Mount Points
    9. Managing Your Media
    10. Managing Media Using FTP
    11. Statistics
    12. Shoutcast 2 Premium
    1. Getting started with video streaming
    2. Live Streaming Overview
    3. TV Station Overview
    4. Ondemand Video Streaming
    5. GeoIP Country Locking
    6. VAST Advertising
    7. Relay & IP Camera
    8. Stream Recording
    9. Connecting your encoder
    10. Preparing Your Media Files
    11. Managing Media Using FTP
    12. Understanding Video Playlists
    13. Embedding player on your website
    14. Smooth Streaming and Content Transition
    15. Video Transcoding (Adaptive Bitrate Streaming)
    16. Stream Watermark​
    17. DVR Rewind
    18. Statistics
    19. Facebook Live Streaming
    20. Youtube Stream Publishing
    21. Twitch Stream Publishing
    22. Shoutcast 2 Stream Publishing
    23. Icecast Stream Publishing
    24. RTMP Stream Publishing
    1. Cloud Video Overview
    2. Admin Manual - Cloud Video
      1. WHMCS Billing Provisioning Module
      2. Login to your cloud platform
      3. Dashboard - A First Look
      4. Branding your platform
      5. Team & Staff Members
      6. Plans & Customers
      7. Activating VOD on Customer Plan
    3. User Manual - Cloud Video
      1. Login to your video platform
      2. First Look
      3. Creating a Channel
      4. Channel Overview
      5. Broadcasting
      6. Recording
      7. Media Content
      8. Live Events
      9. 30 Minute Rewind
      10. Fallback Video
      11. TV Channels - 24x7 UGC
        1. TV Event Scheduling
      12. Video on Demand
      13. VOD Playlists
      14. Publishing
      15. Bandwidth Utilisation
      16. Viewing Analytics
      17. Publish Zoom Meetings
      18. Advertising
      19. Restreaming IP Cameras
    4. Video Guide Series
    5. Streaming Best Practices
    6. Feature Comparison
    7. Roadmap & Release Notes
Upgrading

Last updated 9 months ago

This guide will assist you with upgrading MediaCP on CentOS or Debian linux operating systems.

1. Notes

2. Login as Root

It is required that you login to the server as root user to upgrade the Media Control Panel.

3. Update System Packages

Before upgrading the MediaCP software, you should ensure your system has all the latest updates. 

CentOS

yum update

Debian

apt update && apt upgrade

4. Backup

You should backup your MediaCP software and store the backup off-site before every upgrade.

A software upgrade can fail for several reasons such as disk failure, sudden power-off, network connectivity loss and more. The upgrade can be an intensive operation as it may need to compile software or process database changes, this can be a common reason for issues with your servers disks, memory or other problems to be exposed.

5. Update Media Control Panel

Login to your SSH server as root and run the following command:
su -c "$(curl -sSL http://install.mediacp.net) upgrade"
If upgrading between major versions (i.e., 2.10 to 2.11) then we recommend restarting all services.
mediacp restart services

6. Update Mediacp Without Updating Wowza.

By default the MediaCP is tightly coupled with Wowza and does automatically manage the version.

If the currently supported version of Wowza is 4.8.25+2 and MediaCP will not upgrade beyond this version.

To prevent MediaCP from automatically updating Wowza Streaming Engine then you can make sure that our version file at /usr/local/mediacp/versions/WowzaStreamingEngine contains the current version number exactly as is, in this example the current version is 4.8.25+2. This means that when editing the version file you will need to enter exactly “4.8.25+2”.

7. Troubleshooting

Installation/Upgrade failed during prerequisites stage: This may occur if there is a problem with the yum or apt updates utility. If the install or upgrade gets stuck during this step you will need to contact your server provider to repair yum or apt, once repaired reattempt the upgrade or installation.

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