On 11/01/2011 16:37, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Kevin, > > On 1/10/2011 5:21 PM, Kevin Murray wrote: >> I currently have a functioning Tomcat 5.5.25 server installed on 64-bit >> Linux and my goal is to advance to version Tomcat version 5.5.31 >> Is the a method akin to applying a patch to my existing Tomcat 5.5.25 >> install which will advance it to version 5.5.31 ? > > You could probably just unzip a new binary package on top of your old > one: anything new would be updated, but you might also inadvertently > overwrite customizations you've made to configuration files, etc. > > It's best to take Pid's advice and do a side-by-side. The advantage of > that is being able to roll-back with very little effort.
Look into using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE. With that configured, it took me < 5 mins to upgrade the ASF test Jira instance from 6.0.29 to 7.0.6 and most of that was waiting for Jira to start (twice because I forgot to clear out the work directory the first time). Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
