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: > > 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 (the more specific the better). > > A minor update, i.e. from 8.5.9 to 8.5.15 should be as simple as: > > 1) Shut down Tomcat > 2) Make a backup of {tomcat}/lib directory (cause you never know, right?) > 3) Copy the lib directory from 8.5.15 to the {tomcat}/lib overwriting > the old jar files > 4) Start up Tomcat > > > Igal Sapir > > Lucee Core Developer > Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/> > >
I would disagree to do it this way. 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 way you can just exchange the CATALINA_HOME with a new version (say 8.5.15) and restart Tomcat. In case there are differences in configs between versions, adapt your conf using https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-85.html#Tomcat_8.5.x_configuration_file_differences https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/introduction.html#Directories_and_Files https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/RUNNING.txt Just my 2cts Peter
