On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:26 AM Hans Schou wrote: "document" manually? Like copy&paste into a text file? >
Yes, however you customarily do so. > > 2. If you used Apache's Windows installer, uninstall it (unfortunately > this removes the service and service configuration info). > > I use the zip file version, roughly I do this: > CD D:\Apache > unzip apache-tomcat-9.0.37.zip > MKLINK /D tomcat-9.0 apache-tomcat-9.0.37 > And then I make all my instances have CATALINA_BASE=D:\Apache\tomcat-9.0 > so I can minor upgrade several instances at the same time just by changing > the symlink (services must be stopped first). > Sounds like you have a fairly robust procedure already in place, and the alternative installer may not provide too much benefit. > 1. Update the timestamps of the config files you don't want the installer > to overwrite. > > Is this necessary when using zip-package? > That depends on where you extract the files and if your unzip tool is set to skip or overwrite newer files when extracting.
