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Community Edition - Tomcat Query

paul_bootes — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:04:04 GMT

Hello,We have the Community Edition 4.0.0 installed, with this we can only run Tomcat 6.0.29A recent health check of our systems has identified that we should really be running 6.0.35 or higher but we would need to upgrade to Community Edition 4.0.1 as part of this.Can anyone advise how I would requ

Re: Community Edition - Tomcat Query

paul_bootes — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:26:47 GMT

Apologies,

I have now downloaded the latest version of Alfresco Community. I take it that if I am not worried about losing any content, there would be no issue in uninstalling 4.0.0 and installing 4.2.0?

Re: Community Edition - Tomcat Query

mrogers — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:34:22 GMT

Theres no reason that you can't run 4.0.0 on a later version of Tomcat. Its just that that the version specified is the version used for testing. And there are lots of changes since 4.0.0 so that has its own merits.

Re: Community Edition - Tomcat Query

gyro_gearless — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:08:27 GMT

If you just want to upgrade your Tomcat to the latest 6.0 version, it should be sufficient to copy over the Tomcat .jar files and restart.
Otherwise, an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2 should be pretty painless (of course, a working backup is a good thing. On the other side, it is always good to have a backup).
And of couse: it depends if and how much customizations you have applied to Alfresco.
I just cant tell how to this with one of the installers, haven't use them for ages 🙂

Cheers
Gyro

Re: Community Edition - Tomcat Query

paul_bootes — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:03:11 GMT

Many thanks for your advice.

Just had a thought - Can I just run the 4.2.0 installer and it will upgrade everything including Tomcat without losing any work in our 4.0.0 version?

Many thanks,

Paul

Re: Community Edition - Tomcat Query

mrksjs — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:41:41 GMT

Just running the installer will not do the trick.
Also replacing the .war files didn't work for me. Might be because 4.2 uses Tomcat 7 now.

See this post, worked fine for me.
http://www.fossoffice.com/en/2012/10/31/alfresco-community-upgrade/