This page provides instructions for upgrading a FlexDeploy installation. These instructions may upgrade Tomcat to the version included in the distribution zip depending on current version of FlexDeploy. FlexDeploy packages Tomcat version 9.0.54.
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Note that FlexDeploy now requires Java 8 for Tomcat, if you are upgrading from older version you may have to upgrade Java as well. It was also noticed that <JarScanner scanManifest="false"/> was missing in some older context.xml files, which caused java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/flexagon/tomcat/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib/gdk_custom.jar (No such file or directory). |
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It is recommended that a backup of the artifact repository file system be taken in case a back-out is required. The location of the artifact repository can be identified by looking at value of -Dflexagon.fd.repository.root in setenvoverride.sh/setenv.sh or setenvoverride.bat/setenv.bat file. This file will be in <FlexDeploy Home>in <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/bin/. Standard file backup procedures can be followed. Optionally, the following command (See following example for unix only) , which can be used to create a tar file backup of the entire directory.
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Step 4. Take a backup and delete apache-tomcat-flexdeploy folder (this will be replaced by new copy). It is required to take backup since the old configuration files will need to be referenced. See example below for Linux. This folder was updated as part of 5.6.0.4, but you can follow this process for every upgrade.
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# Assuming FLEXDEPLOY_HOME environment variable is set, it should be parent folder of apache-tomcat-flexdeploy
# export FLEXDEPLOY_HOME=/u01/flexdeploy
cd $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME
# change version in backup folder as per version you are upgrading from
mv apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/ apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-5603/ |
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# let's say download zip was extracted in /u01/software/flexdeploy
# export UNZIPPED_FLEXDEPLOY=/u01/software/flexdeploy
cd $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME
mkdir apache-tomcat-flexdeploy
# assuming download zip has been unzipped in UNZIPPED_FLEXDEPLOY folder.
cd $UNZIPPED_FLEXDEPLOY/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy
cp -R * $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/
cd $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/
chmod +x ./bin/*.sh
cp $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-5603/libext/* $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext/ |
Note on additional extension jar files : If you had placed additional libraries in apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder or in the apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext folder, then you will need to copy them from backup folder into the new apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext folder. Note that all extension jars should be kept in libext folder. Examples might be JDBC driver (for Oracle drivers there is additional detail in step 6), CyberArk libraries for Tomcat connection pool provider etc.
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If you were already using setenvoverride.sh, then copy that from backup folder (Step 4), otherwise any changes previously done for setenv.sh must be added to setenvoverride.sh (or .bat). For example, Artifact directory, application directory, and java_home changes will need to be transferred over from your old setenv.sh file. If your old file looks like this:
Your new setenvoverride.sh should look like this:
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