Recreating old version for archive restore

ERPNext
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I’m building a version-11 system on a Virtual Box Ubuntu 18.04 VM.

This will be for keeping an archive of an ERPNext install for regulatory/tax purposes. The original ERPNext version 11 server has been decommissioned. We have db and file backups.

I’ve got bench 4.1.2 installed. I set up a site,I installed apps frappe 11 and erpnext version-11-hotfix. A basic database exists in mariadb (no ERPNext tables, just the frappe defaults so far)

I tried setting up a production server:

Any of the bench setup commands (such as bench setup nginx, bench setup supervisor) end with jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: nginx.conf (or supervisor.conf, etc)

I tried running from bench in developer mode. I get a page at port 8000, but clicking login gives the following in the bench console:

  • Debugger PIN: 330-932-699
    192.168.1.243 - - [23/Feb/2026 08:49:22] “GET /login HTTP/1.1” 200 -
    192.168.1.243 - - [23/Feb/2026 08:49:35] “GET /website_theme.css HTTP/1.1” 200 -
    192.168.1.243 - - [23/Feb/2026 08:49:35] “GET /website_script.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
    INFO:werkzeug:192.168.1.243 - - [23/Feb/2026 08:49:35] “GET /website_script.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
  • Detected change in ‘/home/mikez/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/www/pycache/website_script.cpython-36.pyc’, reloading
    INFO:werkzeug: * Detected change in ‘/home/mikez/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/www/pycache/website_script.cpython-36.pyc’, reloading
  • Restarting with inotify reloader

Any insight to get this set up and get to the restore point?

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This post seems promising: Unofficial frappe & ERPNext Virtual Machine for v11 to v14

The post links to a guide on their website that looks pretty good. You may be able to adapt their approach to make it work. Looks like there’s a few “gotchas” along the way.

If that way proves too difficult and the code doesn’t need to be v11, and you just need a functional data archive, there are docker images for v13 I bet you could spin up pretty easily. Restore the database and “bench migrate” might bring everything you need across without too much trouble.

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Also, poking around web.archive.org turned up this. It may just be a version-11 virtual machine image:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190720145130/http://build.erpnext.com/ERPNext-Production.ova

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Thanks for the options! I think the oven you linked to was what we used to spin up the server in the first place. That may be the way to go.

Thanks again

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Happy to help.