On 28/05/2014 13:21, David kerber wrote: > On 5/28/2014 8:12 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 28/05/2014 13:06, David kerber wrote: >>> Right now I'm running TC 7.0.22 on Windows Server 2008 R2, as windows >>> services. Not using APR. >>> >>> To upgrade to the latest version, I should be able to just stop the >>> services and unzip the latest .zip version on top of the existing Tomcat >>> installation, right? >> >> Wrong. >> >> At least one JAR (ecj*.jar, the Eclipse compiler) has changed names so >> you'll have multiple versions of that JAR. You'll need to remove the old >> versions. > > Ok. > > >> >> You are also likely to clobber any customisations you have in server.xml >> or any of the other files in conf. > > I use separate CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME directories, so shouldn't > be an issue.
Excellent. Always the easiest way to manage upgrades. Just unpack to a new CATALINA_HOME and point to the new location. Don't forget to empty the work directory which Tomcat is shutdown. >> You can do it this way but you need to be really careful. >> >> The migration guide on the web site provides a handy tool to check for >> changes in the default config files between versions so you can see what >> changes you need to apply to your customised files (assuming you have >> made some tweaks). > > No customizations to the default conf files, but I'll take a look to see > what else I might not be thinking of. There are some changes you'll want to pull in. If you haven't changed the defaults you can just copy the files but it is worth checking the files really are unchanged first. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
