Donovan Brown

If you followed my blog on How to setup a SonarQube server in Azure using this blog will show you how to upgrade it.

1. Take inventory for plugins installed on current version.
2. Download desired version from https://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/
3. Once the download is complete unblock the file
1. Right-click the zip
2. Click the unblock button
4. Unzip into new location leaving the old server folder
5. Using Services stop your SonarQube
6. Using the batch file in \bin of current server run UninstallNTService.bat
7. Using Sql Server Management Studio to back up your database
8. Copy settings from \conf\sonar.properties file to new install
1. Do not copy entire file
9. Using the batch file in \bin of new server run InstallNTService.bat
10. Using Services change the Log on as as described in I can’t run SonarQube as a Windows Service
11. Using Services start server
12. Visit http://yourserver/setup and follow the directions
13. Re-install/Upgrade plugins