Hi All,

Need guidance or help I order to upgrade the current tomcat version on the
server to later version where I have already deployed an application on
windows server and do not want to loss any data.


Current version of tomcat : 8.5.23

Need to upgrade to either : 8.5.73 or 9.0.54



On Tue, 16 Nov, 2021, 3:01 am Christopher Schultz, <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

> Jon,
>
> On 11/15/21 15:20, jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com.INVALID wrote:
> > Files Required in CATALINA_BASE:
> >
> > bin
> > Only shell scripts or batch files. Make sure that setenv.sh or
> > setenv.bat sets and passes the CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME
> > locations properly.
> You can't use CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh to set CATALINA_BASE,
> otherwise this file will never be found ;)
>
> setenv.sh should be used for things like CATALINA_OPTS.
>
> > conf
> > All of the conf files.
>
> Specifically, you'll want server.xml and web.xml. You can also choose to
> customize context.xml, and put any [engine]/[host]/[webapp].xml
> deployment descriptors there.
>
> > lib
> > Only .jar files needed by your Instance, not necessarily the
> > application(s), and definitely not any of the jars from
> > CATALINA_HOME
> This should almost always be empty except maybe for a JDBC driver.
>
> > logs (if in this location)
>
> ... and they should be, unless you have some exotic logging going on.
>
> > webapps (if in this location)
>
> ... and they should be, unless you are using
> CATALINA_BASE/conf/[engine]/[host]/[webapp].xml files.
>
> > temp and work
>
> These must additionally be *writable* by Tomcat.
>
> -chros
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Michael B Allen <iop...@gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 2:16 PM
> >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> >> Subject: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What $CATALINA_HOME/conf/ files should be copied into
> >> $CATALINA_BASE?
> >>
> >> RUNNING.txt just says:
> >>
> >> * conf - Server configuration files (including server.xml)
> >>
> >> So it's multiple fileS but not necessarily all if server.xml is
> explicitly included?
> >>
> >> Ideally I would think it should be only files that need to be modified
> since
> >> that seems to be the point of using $CATALINA_BASE. Is this correct?
> >>
> >> I'm trying to use $CATALINA_BASE just because it seems like the proper
> way
> >> to setup Tomcat in general.
> >>
> >> Without $CATALINA_BASE everything works as near as I can tell.
> >>
> >> But if I change $CATALINA_BASE to be different from $CATALINA_HOME in
> >> my startup bat like:
> >>
> >> $CATALINA_HOME/bin/xstart.bat:
> >> SETLOCAL
> >>
> >> set JRE_HOME=%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre1.8.0_311
> >> set CATALINA_HOME=C:\path\to\tomcat
> >> set CATALINA_BASE=C:\path\to\tomcat-base
> >>
> >> "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat" run %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> >>
> >> And then in tomcat-base I have:
> >>
> >> bin\tomcat-juli.jar
> >> conf\keystore.jks
> >> conf\server.xml
> >>
> >> The server.xml is stock except for the following:
> >>
> >>      <Connector
> >>          port="8443"
> >>          protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
> >>          scheme="https"
> >>          secure="true"
> >>          SSLEnabled="true">
> >>          <SSLHostConfig>
> >>              <Certificate
> >>                  certificateKeystoreFile="conf/keystore.jks"
> >>                  certificateKeystorePassword="as1busiw19"/>
> >>          </SSLHostConfig>
> >>      </Connector>
> >>
> >> conf\tomcat-users.xml
> >> conf\Catalina\localhost\manager.xml
> >> logs\localhost_access_log.2021-11-15.txt
> >> temp\
> >> webapps\myapp\<mywebappfiles>
> >>
> >> Note: There is no myapp\WEB-INF\context.xml
> >>
> >> webapps\manager\<managerfiles>
> >>
> >> Tomcat starts up ok and Tomcat Manager works. I can see myapp in the
> >> manager which claims it's deployed and running.
> >>
> >> But trying to access /myapp results in:
> >>
> >>      404 Not Found: The origin server did not find a current
> representation for
> >> the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.
> >>
> >> I can un-deploy /myapp and re-deploy it through the manager and again,
> >> nothing but 404.
> >>
> >> Doesn't work under HTTPS either (and HTTPS works without using
> >> $CATALINA_BASE).
> >>
> >> What could be the problem here?
> >>
> >> I used the following to create a symbolic link to the tomcat directory:
> >>
> >> cmd>mklink /d tomcat apache-tomcat-9.0.54
> >>
> >> Is this ok?
> >>
> >> I'm using Tomcat 9.0.54 32 bit on Windows Server 2016 64 bit. The native
> >> runtime DLL fails to load because it's built for 32bit. But this seems
> to fallback
> >> to the Java runtime just fine. Is this somehow a problem?
> >>
> >> Do I need a deployment context xml?
> >>
> >> I'm a little stumped by this. I don't normally use Tomcat but I just
> wanted to
> >> create an "Application Note" about how to properly use my product with
> >> Tomcat. So I'm really interested in how this all is supposed to work
> and not so
> >> much just seeing it work.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >> --
> >> Michael B Allen
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