upgrade of jenkins in tomcat does not work

2012-08-13 Thread david gang
Hi, In the admin screen I got the message New version of Jenkins (1.477) is available for download. I tried to upgrade the apllication but without success. These are the steps i made: I downloaded the war file from http://updates.jenkins-ci.org/download/war/1.477/jenkins.war and moved it to

Re: upgrade of jenkins in tomcat does not work

2012-08-13 Thread david gang
Hi Richard, I did not intend to post the message twice. The first post was not with enough data and i did not know how to edit the message, so i removed it and posted it again :-) No. I did not remove the folder. Can i remove the jenkins directory while the tomcat is running or do i have to

Re: upgrade of jenkins in tomcat does not work

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Lavoie
To make a clean work, you should stop tomcat unless you still have access to the default host-manager or manager that comes with tomcat. From there you can stop a webapp and then you will be able to remove the old folder without having java classes still in memory for that web app. Richard

Re: upgrade of jenkins in tomcat does not work

2012-08-13 Thread david gang
Hi Richard, I removed the folder and it worked great. Thanks a lot, David On Aug 13, 2:59 pm, Richard Lavoie lavoie.rich...@gmail.com wrote: To make a clean work, you should stop tomcat unless you still have access to the default host-manager or manager that comes with tomcat. From there you

Re: upgrade of jenkins in tomcat does not work

2012-08-13 Thread David Gang
Hi, I am curious why do ihave to remove the jenkins folder. Should not tomcat make this auomatically for me when he recognizes that the war is newer? Thanks, David On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:01:00 PM UTC+3, David Gang wrote: Hi Richard, I removed the folder and it worked great.