Upgrading Alfresco

This is a short note on how I upgraded Alfresco. The basic idea was to just replace WAR files while keeping configuration files with local modifications intact. To be able to do that, I'll unpack WAR archive, integrate changes I made to running instance of Alfresco, create new WAR archives and place cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m in tomcat webapps folder so that he unpacks and deploys cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m.

Preparation

So, I downloaded Alfresco 4.2.c. More specifically, I downloaded file alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip. The version I had was 4.0.d.

To find out what configuration files are changed in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 running instance I unpacked alfresco.war archive (that file is in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 downloaded archive) into a separate directory using unzip command. I suggest that you create directory alfresco, enter that directory and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n run unzip command. There, I run cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 following script:

#!/bin/bash
OLDPATH=/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco/
for i in `find . -path ./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/messages -prune -o -name \*properties -print`
do
        # If file doesn't exist we don't need to check it, go to next one
        [ -f $OLDPATH/$i ] || continue
        # If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 old and new files are cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n skip it also
        cmp -s $OLDPATH/$i $i && continue
        # diff -uN $OLDPATH/$i $i | less
        echo $i
done

The script showed me what files have changed:

./WEB-INF/classes/test/alfresco/test-hibernate-cfg.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/model/dataTypeAnalyzers_en.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/workflow/invitation-nominated-workflow-messages_ja.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_it.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_de.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_nl.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_es.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_fr.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post_ja.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/wiki/move.post.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/email/OutboundSMTP/outboundSMTP.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/thirdparty/default/swf-transform.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/thirdparty/default/imagemagick-transform.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/fileServers/default/file-servers.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Synchronization/default/default-synchronization.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Search/solr/solr-search.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Search/solr/solr-backup.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/ldap-ad/ldap-ad-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/ldap/ldap-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/kerberos/kerberos-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/alfrescoNtlm/alfresco-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/passthru/passthru-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication-context.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/OOoDirect/default/openoffice-transform.properties./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/version.properties./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

Of those, localization files are not important (cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ones ending in _[a-z][a-z].properties). If you uncomment a line containing less cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 script will compare each file and show you difference in less. Based on that, I factored out cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 following configuration files that were changed:

./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties
./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/ldap/ldap-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties
./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication/kerberos/kerberos-aucá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ntication.properties
./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

I also found that I didn't change mail configuration data in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 file:

./WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/email/OutboundSMTP/outboundSMTP.properties

The next step was to find what changes are due to local configuration, and which ones are due to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 changes in upstream. Namely, I'll take old configuration files but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 changes in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 new version have to be propagated. It turned out that repository.properties doesn't have any changes, while cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r three have. So, I started to change files in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 new version of Alfresco, that I unpacked. Finally, when all cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 changes are done, create new archive:

cd ..
mv alfresco.war alfresco.war.OLD
cd alfresco
zip -9rv ../alfresco .
cd ..
mv alfresco.zip alfresco.war

The first two commands rename old archive, next two create a new archive, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 final command changes name to have extension WAR. I assumed here that you unpacked original WAR archive into directory called alfresco.

All this has to be done with share.war archive too. In my case, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 script showed that only log4j.properties has been changed so I incorporated changes and created a modified share.war archive.

Update

Finally, I stopped tomcat, and alfresco using:

service tomcat6 stop

created a copy of existing alfresco and share directories in tomcat's webapp directory. I also renamed old alfresco.war and share.war, and moved cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ones I prepared in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir place. Take care about permissions, tomcat has to be owner of everything! Then, I started tomcat with:

service tomcat6 start

and also started to pray that it works. Well, almost, I watched logs (/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out) because I doubt that praying would help. ;)

Everything was OK, i.e. errors that I received (openoffice, pdf2swf) were expected because I didn't inistalled cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m. But, two errors were not expected:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: alfresco.log (Permission denied)

well, that one was cause by share.war not being able to reopen log file already being used by alfresco.war. So, I changed in appropriate log4j.properties that it uses its own separate log file. Except that it turned that I forgot to change log4j.properties. Anyway, I gave separate log to share.war just to be on a safe side and to finish this finally. The second error was:

java.net.BindException: Permission denied

That one was caused by FTP server not being able to bind to a low numbered port. This is OK, because I'm not running tomcat as a root. So, I'm safe to ignore it.