Re: Best practice to upgrade .war files

2010-08-30 Thread Rainer Frey
On Monday 30 August 2010 13:13:03 Ozgur Ozdemircili wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Rainer Frey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > what is the best practice to replace a webapp with a newer version in > > production? > > > > I'm using Tomcat 6.0.29, with unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false". All >

Re: Best practice to upgrade .war files

2010-08-30 Thread Ozgur Ozdemircili
Hi, After trying all sorts of deploy types I have found the best, simplest and pain-free deploy in : - Stop tomcat - Go to webapps folder - Remove the webapplication folder and the .war file - Copy the new war file - Start tomcat. In order to have a backup copy I also leave a .war file of the p

Best practice to upgrade .war files

2010-08-30 Thread Rainer Frey
Hi, what is the best practice to replace a webapp with a newer version in production? I'm using Tomcat 6.0.29, with unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false". All Webapps reside in appBase, some have a machine-specific context descriptor, that I manually copy to conf/Catalina/localhost. I use the