Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-25 Thread Mark Eggers
Chris, On 5/24/2017 2:09 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 5/24/17 11:50 AM, Mark Eggers wrote: >> True blue-green deployments would take some additional work, but >> that's not beyond the realm of possibility. I might spend some >> time doing this with Elastic Beanstalk, since $work

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 5/24/17 11:50 AM, Mark Eggers wrote: > True blue-green deployments would take some additional work, but > that's not beyond the realm of possibility. I might spend some > time doing this with Elastic Beanstalk, since $work wishes to move

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-24 Thread Mark Eggers
Chris, On 5/23/2017 10:55 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 5/21/17 8:34 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: >> I developed my own [build and deployment scripts]. I use the Ant >> scripts just for customizing Tomcat installations.> I do have one >> slight issue with my current Ant scripts. The

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-23 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 5/21/17 8:34 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: > I developed my own [build and deployment scripts]. I use the Ant > scripts just for customizing Tomcat installations.> I do have one > slight issue with my current Ant scripts. The link task isn't >

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-21 Thread Mark Eggers
Chris, On 5/20/2017 4:37 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 5/19/17 3:26 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: >> GB, > >> On 5/19/2017 8:28 AM, gkk gb wrote: >>> If my current Tomcat is installed in >>> >>> >>> /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.9 >>> >>> >>> and then I install the latest Tomcat

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-21 Thread Igal @ Lucee.org
Chris, On 5/20/2017 4:37 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: This is roughly what we do as well: our ant-based build scripts build server.xml (and context.xml for that matter) from a set of properties that are specific to the application (and environment). And of course Tomcat is started/stopped

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 5/19/17 3:26 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: > GB, > > On 5/19/2017 8:28 AM, gkk gb wrote: >> If my current Tomcat is installed in >> >> >> /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.9 >> >> >> and then I install the latest Tomcat in >> >> >>

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Eggers
GB, On 5/19/2017 8:28 AM, gkk gb wrote: > If my current Tomcat is installed in > > > /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.9 > > > and then I install the latest Tomcat in > > > /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.15 > > > how does Apache web server know to connect to the newer version of >

Re: AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-19 Thread Igal @ Lucee.org
On 5/17/2017 12:41 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: That simple approach is incomplete. It assumes that: a) the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/bin haven't changed b) the names of the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/lib haven't changed c) no configuration changes are required. a) sometimes happens b) happens when the

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-19 Thread gkk gb
If my current Tomcat is installed in /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.9 and then I install the latest Tomcat in /home/tomcat/dir1/apache-tomcat-8.5.15 how does Apache web server know to connect to the newer version of Tomcat? Is this established by the definition of

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-17 Thread Daniel Savard
2017-05-17 12:58 GMT-04:00 Richard Huntrods : > On 16/05/2017 17:18, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: >> >>> On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote: >>> I'd say a more robust (and the documented way) is to use a Tomcat-Home directory and a Tomcat-Base Directory.

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-17 Thread Richard Huntrods
On 16/05/2017 17:18, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote: I'd say a more robust (and the documented way) is to use a Tomcat-Home directory and a Tomcat-Base Directory. $CATALINA_HOME holds the actual distributed Tomcat-"Binaries" (ZIP/TGZ), $CATALINA_BASE

Re: AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-17 Thread Mark Thomas
On 16/05/2017 17:18, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote: I'd say a more robust (and the documented way) is to use a Tomcat-Home directory and a Tomcat-Base Directory. $CATALINA_HOME holds the actual distributed Tomcat-"Binaries" (ZIP/TGZ), $CATALINA_BASE

Re: AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-16 Thread Igal @ Lucee.org
On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote: I'd say a more robust (and the documented way) is to use a Tomcat-Home directory and a Tomcat-Base Directory. $CATALINA_HOME holds the actual distributed Tomcat-"Binaries" (ZIP/TGZ), $CATALINA_BASE holds your adapted config, libs and webapps. This

AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-16 Thread Kreuser, Peter
Igal, -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Igal @ Lucee.org [mailto:i...@lucee.org] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Mai 2017 16:44 > An: Tomcat Users List; modjkl...@comcast.net > Betreff: Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x? > > On 5/16/2017 6:37 AM, modjkl...@comcast.net wrote: &

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-16 Thread Igal @ Lucee.org
On 5/16/2017 6:37 AM, modjkl...@comcast.net wrote: I assume I need to shutdown Tomcat. Then, is there a set of directories I should just replace to perform the update? Are these directories listed somewhere? Then do I just restart Tomcat to finalize the update? Any advice much appreciated

how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

2017-05-16 Thread modjklist
First-time Tomcat user here. I installed 8.5.9months ago, and would like to upgrade to the latest 8.5.15. I see there's some documentation for updating the 8.5.x branch here, http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-85.html#Upgrading_8.5.x but I'm missing some context. I have a fairly simple