National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
United States Department of Commerce

Upgrading an Existing LAS Server

Last modified: Wed, 11/01/2017 - 17:32
How to upgrade

To upgrade your existing LAS server follow these steps. 

  1. Shutdown your tomcat.
  2. Move $TOMCAT_HOME/content/las to $TOMCAT_HOME/content/las.hold (or some safe directory of your choosing).
  3. Expand the distribution in a new directory.
  4. Install it with the default configuration.
  5. Start tomcat and verify the default installation works.
  6. Shutdown.
  7. Remove $TOMCAT_HOME/content/las and put $TOMCAT_HOME/content/las.hold in its place.
  8. Restart the server.
  9. If you are going use an edited version of the start script we provide, make sure the new script has any changes for memory size, etc...