On 27/01/2012 21:41, S Ahmed wrote: > If I need to upgrade an existing live application that is running off a > tomcat install that was installed via apt-get (ubuntu), how would I go > about updating tomcat?
Don't know. That would be a question for an Ubuntu support forum. > I would have to understand exactly how tomcat is installed correct? i.e. > things like xml conf files, symbolic links to paths that may have been > created, startup/stop scripts that might need to point somewhere else etc. > > Am I making this too complicated or is this how others update to a newer > version of tomcat? It depends. It isn't how I do it. I use separate CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. Upgrades and downgrades are then trivial. For example, upgrading the ASF's Jira instances takes less than 2 minutes and most of that time is waiting for Jira to shutdown and startup. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
