Well I haven't found the transition to 4.0 as smooth as you describe. Can't get
any of my 4.0 apps to run. I just tried moving an application from ~jakarta-tomcat.3.2.2/webapps/ to ~jakarta-tomcat.4.01/webapps/; stopped and restarted tomcat and tested; didn't work. Guess I haven't hit upon the trick yet. Rich "Pieters, Marina" wrote: > Thanks for the reply. If we upgrade to 3.2.4, it means we won't have any > more HTTP 500 Internal Server Error? > > Marina > > -----Original Message from Denis Balazuc on December 10, 2001 5:09 PM > > Unless you are willing to spend a little bit of time reconfiguring Tomcat, > and maybe modify your install scripts, you can stick to Tomcat 3.2.x > (currently 3.2.4). So you can upgrade from 3.2.2 to 3.2.4 without any > worries. Just make sure you keep a copy of your webapps and your server.xml > file. > > If you want to move to Tomcat 4.0.x, this will require a bit of > configuration and deployement, so it's up to you. > You should not have to change your servlets code however, even not have to > recompile it, so it's a smooth transition. > I actually spent more time reading Tomcat 4.0 docs than actually installing > and migrating my 3.2 webapps..... > > However, I have ran into a slight problem.... > Our include statements <@include> were a bit messy... althought Tomcat 3.2 > was happy with the mess, Tomcat 4.0 is stricter and we had to change our > includes (actually clean them) to have our webapps 100% functional....but > this is only because we did things wrong (I think...) and that 3.2 was > accepting the wronginess of our code.... > > Hope this helps > Denis > > ----- Original Message from "Pieters, Marina" on December 10, 2001 04:51 PM > > > Our company has a web application created by Java servlets; and this > > application runs on the Apache/Tomcat server (Sun). Since July 2001, the > > server was down with the" HTTP 500" error message about 12 times. Each > time, > > we have to restart Tomcat"; but lately, this problem occurs more > frequently. > > > > > > Our version of Tomcat is 3.2.2. We have been told that there might be a > bug > > in that version. We are planning to upgrade to the latest version 4.0.x. > > Where can we find the information about how to upgrade to the new version? > > Do we need to recompile the code? Is it the right decision to upgrade to > an > > other version? or is there better solution to avoid this problem? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Marina > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
