Installation guide

6. SERVLETEXEC/AS: APPLICATION SERVER (UNIX/LINUX)
To upgrade to ServletExec/AS 5.0 from 3.0 or 3.1 and maintain your old configuration
settings
1. Stop your web server. If you’ve installed ServletExec/AS adapters for multiple
web servers, stop them all.
2. Make backup copies of the
ServletExecData, Servlets, classes (if
you’ve added an additional one), and
webapps (versions 3.1 and above only)
directories for all ServletExec/AS instances.
 For ServletExec/AS 3.0 and later, the default locations are within:
/usr/local/NewAtlanta/ServletExecAS/se-<instance-name>
3. Close all open applications.
4. Uninstall the old version of ServletExec/AS by running the installer for that
version. Choose remove ServletExec/AS completely when prompted by the
installer.
5. Run the ServletExec/AS 5.0 installer. You will need to re-run the installer for
each ServletExec/AS instance, installing into the same location as the previous
installation..
Note
The default installation directory for versions 2.2 and earlier is different.
Important
For a successful upgrade, you must install everything into the same directory as the
previous version.
6. Copy the ServletExecData, Servlets, classes (if you’ve added an
additional one), and
webapps (versions 3.1 and above only) directories to the
new
ServletExecAS directory created by the installer in Step 5. In
ServletExec/AS 5.0, the default location of the
ServletExecAS directory is:
/usr/local/NewAtlanta/ServletExecAS
7. Restart your web server.
After restarting your web server, the new version of ServletExec/AS will run using your
old configuration settings.
Tip
If you have any problems, you can restore the subdirectories from the backups you made in
Step 3.
6.2 System Requirements
6.2.1 Operating System and Web Server
ServletExec/AS 5.0 for UNIX supports the following operating systems and web servers.
Again, it supports these web servers using web adapters.
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