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Hi,

please find here some infos on updating an existing installation. These are especially usefult when not using the default installation (setup.exe ...) but working in an own Tomcat/... environment, e.g. based on Linux.

For updating you need to:

(1.) Download the version via DevZone. Either the setup.exe program ("all inlusive") or the .zip file. In both cases you will find a "resources" folder after installation/unzipping.

(2.) Now the first thing: update the CaptainCasa tools. This is the /webapplications/editor.war file. You need to bring this into the tomcat environment that you use. Pay attention: in the web application the project files are managed in /editor/config/projects. Although CaptainCasa will never overwrite this, it is useful to keep a safety copy - in order to avoid deletion because of other reasons (e.g. Tomcat removing a web application).
The most trustful way of bringing the editor.war into your tomcat:
a) stop tomcat
b) make sagety copy of /tomcat/webapps/editor/config/projects
c) remove tomcat/webapps/editor.war and tomcat/webapps/editor directory
d) start tomcat
e) throw the saved project files back in

(3.) Now you need to update your projects: each project contains CaptainCasa parts, so you need to update these parts. This is easy:
in the installation you find the directory /webappaddons. Copy the whole content of this directory into the /webcontent part you project.

(4.) Remember: next time you start the layout editor and looking into your project: by reloading the project files will be copied from the project's directory into the tomcat runtime - so you need to press reload one time to see the updated version.

(5.) OK, this is optional, but also to do: the installation contains the web application /webapplications/demos.war. Bring this into your tomcat environment as well. Best way: stop tomcat, remove webapps/demos.war and webapps/demos-directory, copy new demos.war and restart tomcat.

Of course: we recommend to define an ANT script or a shell script to execute all these steps at once.

Hope this helps!

Björn

Hi,

today's version contains some tool support for upgrading existing projects: after having updated your editor.war and starting the Project overview you will get notified that your project version does not match the tool's version - and there is a "red button" which triggers the update.

Björn

PS: still, doing it via an ANT script is the cleanest and nicest way! ;-)