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. SSL Certificates
      6. Streaming Servers
        1. Nginx-Rtmp Video Server
        2. Wowza Streaming Engine
        3. Flussonic Media Server
        4. Video Feature Comparison
        5. Icecast 2 / Icecast KH
    3. Billing Integration
      1. WHMCS Integration Guide
      2. Clientexec Integration Guide
      3. Blesta 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. Change MediaCP domain name
      3. Move media to another hard disk
      4. Secure your server
      5. Troubleshooting Login Errors
      6. Custom Facebook App
      7. Custom Web Service Configurations
      8. Reset Admin Password
      9. Port 80 / 443 Proxy
      10. Admin Tools
    7. Scaling
      1. Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN
      2. Nginx-Rtmp with CloudFront CDN
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. MySQL Database Troubleshooting
      2. Reporting Troubleshooting
      3. Troubleshooting Liquidsoap AutoDJ
      4. Video Relay Troubleshooting
      5. Grant access to support team
      6. Troubleshooting Wowza Streaming Engine
      7. FTP 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. Send email to Customer
      5. Login as another Customer
      6. Reset Customer Password
    5. Reseller Accounts
      1. Reseller Plans
      2. Create a Reseller Account
    6. Media Services
      1. Creating a Media Service
      2. Deleting a Media Service
    7. Announcements
      1. Managing Announcements
      2. Creating Announcement
      3. Deleting Announcement
    8. Statistics
    9. Software Health
    10. Software Updates
    11. Email Templates
    12. API
    1. Introduction
    2. Video Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Service Overview
      3. File Manager
      4. Scheduling
      5. Streaming to Your Service
      6. Stream Targets
      7. GeoIP Country Locking
      8. Widgets & Links
      9. Reporting
    3. 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. Stream Proxy
      10. Stream Authentication
      11. Widgets & Links
      12. Reporting
    4. Reseller Operations Manual
      1. Reseller Dashboard
      2. Customers
      3. Media Services
    1. Wowza and Flussonic on same system
    2. Submit a feature request
    3. Wowza Custom Properties
    4. API Documentation
    5. Custom Domain Names
    6. Shoutcast 2 Admin Guide
    1. Broadcasting with AutoDJ
    2. Shoutcast 2 Premium
    3. Mount Points
    4. Managing Media Using FTP
    5. Shoutcast 2 Live Broadcasting
    6. DJ Priorities
    7. HTML5 Audio Player
    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. Image Logo or Watermark Overlay on Video Stream
    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. Team & Staff Members
      2. Plans & Customers
      3. WHMCS Billing Provisioning Module
      4. Login to your cloud platform
      5. Dashboard - A First Look
      6. Branding your platform
      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. Media Content
      7. Recording
      8. Fallback Video
      9. TV Channels - 24x7 UGC
      10. Video on Demand
      11. VOD Playlists
      12. Publishing
      13. Viewing Analytics
      14. Publish Zoom Meetings
      15. Advertising
      16. Restreaming IP Cameras
    4. Video Guide Series
    5. Streaming Best Practices
    6. Feature Comparison
    7. Roadmap & Release Notes
Upgrading

Last updated 2 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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