Thanks, I finally got it - just to clarify for any others out there:
On Linux:
1-Download the latest WAR file
2-Explode the WAR file into a directory (maybe /opt/war) using unzip
2a-mkdir /opt/war
2b-cd /opt/war
2c-unzip /path/to/openbd.war
3-cd /opt/war
4-tar cvf /tmp/obdadmin.tar bluedragon demo manual
5-cd WEB-INF
6-tar cvf /tmp/obdmain.tar bin classes customtags lib webresources
7-/etc/init.d/openbd_ctl stop (this stops the Tomcat & openbd)
8-cd /opt/openbd
9-tar xvf /tmp/obdmain.tar
10-cd /opt/openbd/tomcat/webapps/ROOT
11-tar xvf /tmp/obdadmin.tar
12-/etc/init.d/openbd_ctl start
13-rm /tmp/obd*.tar (if you want to remove the tmp tar files we
created)

I used these steps to sucessfully update an installation of
OpenBlueDragon 1.3 (using Vivio Tech's openbd-1.3-pl0-linux-
installer.bin)
The easiest way to verify the update is to look at the version in the
lower-right corner in the administrator, and for the main, simply
CFDump the server scope (<cfdump var="#server#">) in an cfm template.

My Linux install was CentOS5.5 32bit.




On Sep 20, 5:57 pm, Jordan Michaels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know I need to write some upgrade documentation at some point, so I
> appreciate your comment. Basically, the way to perform an upgrade is
> to explode the WAR first, then copy various files from the exploded
> directories to your current install. For example, the lib directory
> should be copied to the /opt/openbd/lib/ directory. (this will update
> BD itself) The BD Administrator should also be part of the exploded
> files, and again, you just copy the new "bluedragon" folder that's in
> the ROOT webapp with the "bluedragon" folder that's in the WEB-INF
> directory and contains the administrator files.
>
> You can sort-of see the process in the Single Instance Install docs I
> wrote a while 
> back:http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Single_Instance_Install
> - under the "Installing OpenBD" header.
>
> For your current ROOT webapp, yeah... you probably don't want to put
> the OpenBD war in there. ;) But you can re-install the openbd
> administrator by copying it
>  into the ROOT just like you would for an upgrade. That is, of course,
> assuming your previous WEB-INF directory survived the experience. I'm
> not sure - never done that!
>
> Hope this helps. =)
>
> -Jordan
>
> On Sep 20, 3:29 pm, Rand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I tried a quick search through this group, maybe I used the wrong
> > search terms, but I used the Vivio Tech installer, and have a valid
> > 1.3 install.
>
> > I actually successfully upgraded the base OpenBlueDragon.jar, and got
> > 1.4 in the debug output (yay, a WIN for me).
> > I just copied the OpenBlueDragon.jar into /opt/openbd/lib, and
> > restarted, and all was good.
>
> > My question is: is there a need to try to upgrade the OpenBD
> > administrator, and if so, are there instructions on how to do that?  I
> > tried copying the contents of the WAR file into /opt/openbd/tomcat/
> > webapps/ROOT, but after I did that, I could no longer access the
> > Admin, even after a restart.  (Maybe I should hav eleft WEB-INF
> > alone?)
>
>

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