On 16/05/2017 17:18, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote:
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
I agree that separating the CATALINA_HOME from CATALINA_BASE is a
much better setup, but if Tomcat was not set up like that already
then for a minor upgrade this complicates the process.
The simplest way to upgrade is the one I documented.
That simple approach is incomplete. It assumes that:
a) the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/bin haven't changed
b) the names of the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/lib haven't changed
c) no configuration changes are required.
a) sometimes happens
b) happens when the JDT compiler is updated
c) can be checked via the migration guides
Mark
Well, I just upgraded my servers from Tomcat 8..5.12 to 8.5.14. The
complex way is to create a new tomcat directory for the new version,
then rename webapps to webapps.orig and create a new webapps directory
to hold my war files. Then compare all the config files and make
appropriate changes to the stock config files, then test. This takes a
while.
So for the minor change from 12 to 14, I decided to try a new way. On my
windows devel box, I unzipped a new download of 12 and a new download of
14 into their own new directories, then compared all the files in both
(yay for the ancient program "windiff"). I then built a batch file to
copy only the changed files and tested this. Once satisfied, I built a
shell script to make the same changes on my devel unix server, and
tested this. Once I was sure it worked without any problems, I ported
the script (and virgin 8.5.14 directory) to my production servers. On
scheduled maintenance I shut down each tomcat 12, ran the script and
then restarted tomcat. All worked perfectly.
Here's the file changes from 8.5.12 to 8.5.14, no including the changes
to "webapps" which I don't use:
#!/bin/sh
#
# update files in tomcat 8.5.12 to 8.5.14
#
# when done, rename apache-tomcat-8.5.12 to apache-tomcat-8.5.14
# then fix the symbolic link and restart tomcat
#
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/RELEASE-NOTES ../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/bin/bootstrap.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/bin
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/bin
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/annotations-api.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/catalina-ant.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/catalina-ha.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/catalina-storeconfig.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/catalina-tribes.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/catalina.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/el-api.jar ../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/jasper-el.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/jasper.jar ../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/jaspic-api.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/jsp-api.jar ../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/servlet-api.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-api.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-coyote.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-dbcp.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-i18n-es.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-i18n-fr.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-i18n-ja.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-jdbc.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-jni.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-util-scan.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-util.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/tomcat-websocket.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
cp ./apache-tomcat-8.5.14/lib/websocket-api.jar
../apps/apache-tomcat-8.5.12/lib
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