On 18/11/2011 22:27, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Caldarale, Charles R >> Subject: RE: Upgrading Tomcat in Place on Linux > >>> What is a good way to upgrade Tomcat in place on a Linux box? > >> Don't. Install the new Tomcat in a different directory. > > Forgot to mention that you will, of course, have to merge your changes to > server.xml and other Tomcat configuration files into the corresponding > locations in the new directory structure, while reading the doc for the new > level to see if any of the attributes have changed (very unlikely in a > dot-level upgrade).
Better still, separate CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE and upgrades can be done very quickly. The ASF Jira instances are set up this way and a Tomcat upgrade takes me about 5 minutes from start to finish. Most of that is me not typing paths (or my passwords) correctly the first time and Jira stopping / starting. You do still need to merge any config file changes but [1] has a handy utility (or the alternative svn command) to provide you with the diffs between any two minor releases in the 7.0.x and 6.0.x branches. Mark [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
