5.3
Table Of Contents
- vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- Table of Contents
- 1. About vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- 2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
- 3. Installing vFabric Web Server
- Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
- Available Distribution Packages
- RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from an RPM
- Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
- Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a ZIP File
- Activate a vFabric Web Server Local License
- Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
- 4. Upgrading vFabric Web Server
- 5. Migrating Enterprise Ready Server to vFabric Web Server
- 6. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
- 7. Configuring vFabric Web Server Instances
- Using Sample Configuration Files to Enable Features and Modify Configuration
- Configure Load Balancing Between Two or More tc Runtime Instances
- Configure SSL Between vFabric Web Server and vFabric tc Server
- Configure tc Runtime Instances to Use SSL
- Configure the vFabric Web Server Instance to Use SSL
- Restrict Communication With tc Runtime Instances to Known Clients
- Update the Web Server Configuration for HTTPS Connections to tc Runtime Instances
- Configure vFabric Web Server to Authenticate Itself Using a Specific Client Certificate
- Configure BMX for Monitoring vFabric Web Server Instances
- Metrics
- 8. Security Information
- 9. Managing Planned and Unplanned Outages
- 10. Additional Documentation
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4. Upgrading vFabric Web Server
The instructions for upgrading vFabric Web Server differ slightly depending on your operating system and how you installed the
original version. See:
• RHEL: Upgrade Using the VMware RPM Repository
• Unix: Upgrade Using a Self-Extracting ZIP
• Windows: Upgrade Using a Self-Extracting ZIP
RHEL: Upgrade Using the VMware RPM Repository
You use yum upgrade to upgrade an existing RHEL installation of vFabric Web Server to the latest version. It is assumed that
you used yum install to originally install the older version.
The yum upgrade process:
• Installs the latest version of the Apache HTTPD Web Server binaries in a new directory (such as httpd-2.2.24.0) and
removes the older versions.
• Adjusts the httpd-2.2 symbolic link to point to the new binaries.
• Automatically updates all existing Web Server instances to start using the new binaries.
Prerequisites
• Stop all running Web Server instances in the installation that you are upgrading. See Unix: Start and Stop vFabric Web Server
Instances
• If necessary, install the vFabric repository RPM that contains the version of vFabric Web Server to which you are upgrading.
For example, vFabric Web Server 5.3 is certified for vFabric Suite 5.3, so install the 5.3 vFabric repository RPM.
Procedure
1. From the RHEL VM on which you will upgrade vFabric Web Server, log in as the root user.
2. Execute the following yum command:
prompt# yum upgrade vfabric-web-server
The yum command begins the upgrade process, resolves dependencies, and displays the packages it plans to upgrade.
3. Enter y at the prompt to begin the actual upgrade.
When the upgrade process finishes, you will see a Complete! message at the end. Check the output of the command to
ensure that the upgrade was successful.
Unix: Upgrade Using a Self-Extracting ZIP
Upgrading vFabric Web Server on Unix is very similar to installing, except you unzip the self-extracting ZIP file into the
existing vFabric Web Server installation directory.
Prerequisites
• Stop all running Web Server instances in the installation that you are upgrading. See Unix: Start and Stop vFabric Web Server
Instances
• Read the Unix installation prerequisites which also apply to upgrading. See Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-
Extracting ZIP .