I will take your advice and upgrade, thats great to hear that I will be 
able to install the newer version.
I'll go ahead and try that out and then let you know how it goes.

Thanks for your help Christian!

On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 6:52:53 PM UTC-8, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
> As long as you have a backup of the database and site directory, you have 
> nothing to worry about. It's perfectly safe to install a newer version of 
> Review Board on the target server, copy the site directory over to the same 
> path as on the old server, and then do a 'rb-site upgrade'. It will upgrade 
> the database to Review Board 3.0.
>
> (3.0 is the recommended version at this point.)
>
> If you want to use the older version on the new server for now, you can 
> locate the site-packages directory containing the old Review Board install 
> and see the versions of the packages you were using there. You can force 
> the installation of the appropriate versions with:
>
>     sudo easy_install package_name==version
>
> Christian
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Chris Lang <crla...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking it'll be safer to move to the new machine first and then 
>> upgrade, and in case anything goes wrong with the upgrade, the team can 
>> continue using the old server.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 12:24:40 PM UTC-8, Chris Lang wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you think it'd be easier to upgrade first and then move to the new 
>>> server? CentOS -> Redhat.
>>> I'm trying to minimize downtime since our developers use it around the 
>>> clock.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 12:17:42 PM UTC-8, Chris Lang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Christian,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I'm moving between servers for security reasons. What version of 
>>>> ReviewBoard would you recommend upgrading to?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 12:08:03 PM UTC-8, Christian Hammond 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> Django 1.6.11 is correct. You likely have something installed on the 
>>>>> server that wants a newer version. It’s possible some dependency required 
>>>>> by Review Board or another of its dependencies picked it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is fixable, but first, can you tell me why you’re installing 
>>>>> 2.0.20? Are you moving between servers?  I ask because except for major 
>>>>> security issues, we’re no longer maintaining this release outside of 
>>>>> support contracts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:56 Chris Lang <crla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to install ReviewBoard 2.0.20 on RedHat 7.4 but am getting 
>>>>>> an error when running rb-site install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I initially installed ReviewBoard with easy_install 
>>>>>> ReviewBoard==2.0.20.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The current errors I'm getting are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 626, 
>>>>>> in resolve
>>>>>>     raise DistributionNotFound(req)
>>>>>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: Django>=1.6.11,<1.7
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 630, 
>>>>>> in resolve
>>>>>>     raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
>>>>>> pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (Django 1.6.11 
>>>>>> (/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages), 
>>>>>> Requirement.parse('Django>=1.8,<1.12'))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot get a version of Django that satisfies both. Not sure what 
>>>>>> to do from here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>
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