Tomcat Upgrade 5.0.27 -> 5.5.9

[derThomas]

Hi,

I have a rather large application based on Tomcat 5.0.27. Getting started, it uses the batchfile startup-using-launcher.bat.
Now I want to use Tomcat 5.5.9 instead of the older version.
Since Tomcat 5.5.9 does not include the startup-using-launcher.bat, I am quite confused how to perform a change of the two versions.
Could somebody give me a hint? I would be very grateful

Greets, Thomas

 

[sedj]

I'm assuming you are using Win32 platform here ...

You can run Tomcat as a Windows Service now ... would that interest you ?

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[derThomas]

Umm, right, we're talking about Win32.
Yes, I know about running Tomcat as a Windows Service - but that is not the desired option. We considered that but just keep in mind as a last resort.
No, don't you know of another way to switch the versions?

 

[sedj]

In that case, you can download the "non installer / non exe download" - I think its just a .zip or .tar.gz - and you can run tomcat has you used to in version 5.0 .

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[derThomas]

I am sorry that I can't. Obviously there have some more changes to be done. Do you have an idea where and how I have to adjust something else? Thx,
Thomas

 

[sedj]

Can't do what ?

Just download it from

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/.../tomcat-5/v5.5.9/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.zip

and then unzip it ... and you're away.

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[derThomas]

Sorry, probably I didn't express myself clearly. The problem is not downloading or extracting or something like that of tomcat, but binding my webapp to it. Since Tomcat 5.0.27 seems to work quite different from Tomcat 5.5.9, I have problems to configure it in the way that my application uses it properly.

 

[sedj]

Just copy in your webapp.war file into TOMCAT_HOME/webapps as usual ...

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