5.7 on Server 2012

I’ve come to realize that when you ask a question like yours, that is a good indication your subconcious already knows the answer, and the reason you are asking the question in the first place.

Sounds like you know it is time to upgrade to a higher version of cloverleaf.

Plus migrating to a new server is actually the best way to do a cloverleaf upgrade I’ve found so far.

I alwasy insist on going to a new server when doing a cloverleaf upgrade since I figured out how to do it.

I’m running on AIX and utilize NFS read only mounts from old server to new server, so the old version of cloverleaf looks to be installed on the new server, and allows hcirootcopy to upgrade the old sites to the scratch install of the later version of cloverleaf on the new server with a more current OS.

This leaves the running older server intact with no risk that the new version of cloverleaf will interfer with it.

You also end up with a clean install of cloverleaf so no undesired baggage is carried forward.

You eliminate any conflicts of environment related items.

Plus you get around the problem with the newer version of cloverleaf not being able to run on an older version of the OS, which frees you to get to a more current OS.

In other words, what you are describing is an idea situation to do an upgrade