Tomcat Upgrade Minor Version

[Michele Mase' <mi...@gmail.com>]

I have to upgrade tomcat from release 7.0.26 to current 7.x release (7.0.64)
I have a huge custom opencms, with a lot of custom conf files.
To avoid a more complex work ie:
extract tar.gz
re-customize config files
move the webapp

Could I simply replace the modified updated jars under bin and lib
directories? I don't need the default webapps.

Michele Masè

Re: Tomcat Upgrade Minor Version

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

On 24/09/2015 08:15, Michele Mase' wrote:
> I have to upgrade tomcat from release 7.0.26 to current 7.x release (7.0.64)
> I have a huge custom opencms, with a lot of custom conf files.
> To avoid a more complex work ie:
> extract tar.gz
> re-customize config files
> move the webapp
> 
> Could I simply replace the modified updated jars under bin and lib
> directories? I don't need the default webapps.

In theory, yes, but backup your system beforehand just in case. You
should also replace the scripts in /bin as well.

You should also use the migration guide [1] to see what has changed in
the config files between those versions and apply any necessary updates
to your configuration.

You may want to consider taking the time to set up separate
CATALINA_HOME (binaries) and CATALINA_BASE (instance) so future upgrades
are as simple as unpack the new binary, stop the instance, point the
instance to the new binary, start the instance.

Mark


[1] http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-7.html#Upgrading_7.0.x


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