# Sonarqube 8.9.6 upgrade from community to Enterprise edition

**URL:** <https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-8-9-6-upgrade-from-community-to-enterprise-edition/73731>\
**Category:** SonarQube Server / Community Build\
**Tags:** sonarqube\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-8-9-6-upgrade-from-community-to-enterprise-edition/73731 "2022-09-28T16:47:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![kafeel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@kafeel](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/kafeel)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-8-9-6-upgrade-from-community-to-enterprise-edition/73731/1 "2022-09-28T16:47:23Z")

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we are planning to upgrade our Community sonarQube 8.9 LTS to Enterprise edition. having few queries-

1. we are having Linux RHEL 7 and running community edition. can we used a same server to upgrade to enterprise one.
2. please share doc for the same.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/colin/32/55255_2.png) [@Colin](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-8-9-6-upgrade-from-community-to-enterprise-edition/73731/2 "2022-09-29T10:57:16Z")

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Hey there.

You can find the (brief) documentation on [upgrading an edition](https://docs.sonarqube.org/8.9/setup/upgrading/#header-4) here.

It’s really as simple as swapping out the installation directory and pointing your configuration to your existing database. 🙂