Update — Windows IIS, Directory

This guide will help you update your existing osTicket Awesome installation on your self-hosted Windows IIS server.

If you are using a Linux server, or your installation is in a subdomain (rather than a directory), please go back to this menu.

When your osTicket was first installed, you (or the person who installed it) chose a name for the directory that it was installed into. Common names that people use are osticket, helpdesk or support.

For the purpose of these instructions we will assume that your website is www.your-domain.com and that the support directory will be in your web root, thus your osTicket Awesome installation will be www.your-domain.com/support

Go to Admin Panel > Manage > Plugins

Make a note of any plugins that are installed and Enabled

Open include/ost-config.php

Make a note of your Database Options

Go to Admin Panel > Settings

Switch your current osTicket Awesome installation to Offline

Backup your database using one of these methods

• phpMyAdmin

  Open phpMyAdmin and select your database

  Click Export

  Select Custom

  Make sure all Tables are selected

  Select Add Drop Table

  Click Go

  
• HeidiSQL

  Sign into a session using your database credentials

  Right-click on your database and click Export database as SQL

  Specify your backup options

  Specify a backup file location

  Click Export

  
• Windows Command Prompt
  Command Prompt

  Run Command Prompt as an Administrator
  > mkdir %HOMEPATH%Documentsosticket-db-backup
  > cd "C:Program FilesMySQLMySQL Server 5.5bin"
  > mysqldump osticket_ -u root -p --single-transaction --quick --lock-tables=false > %HOMEPATH%Documentsosticket-db-backuposticket-backup.sql

Navigate into your web root directory. Rename your osTicket Awesome directory to support-old to backup your old osTicket Awesome files.

• Windows Explorer

  Navigate to your web root directory

  Rename your osTicket Awesome directory to support-old

  

Download and extract the latest osTicket Awesome .zip. Move the upload folder to your web root directory and rename it to your original directory name.

• Windows Explorer

  Download the osTicket Awesome installation .zip to your computer

  Extract the .zip file

  Copy the upload folder to your web root directory

  Rename the upload folder to support (or whatever your original directory name was)

  Delete README.txt and the osTicket Awesome .zip file

  

Copy ost-config.php from includesupport-old to include

• Windows Explorer

  Copy ost-config.php from support-oldinclude to your supportinclude directory

  

Copy your osta\uploads folder

Copy the contents of support-old\osta\uploads\ into osta\uploads\ in your new installation to preserve your custom logo, login backgrounds, and print logo.

Go to www.your-domain.com/support/scp and log in

If required, complete the database upgrade process

Switch osTicket Awesome to Online (Admin Panel > Settings)

Now take a look at our post-installation tasks