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Introduction

The purpose of this document is to outline one method of upgrading a geoportal server deployment with the goal of retaining all user configurations and modifications. Using SVN is preferred - see Upgrading - SVN approach. However, many people may not have started with SVN for version control. For those people, the following method should work using a more manual method for documenting user changes made to a geoportal. This is a necessary step so that you can prepare for incorporating user customizations into a new Geoportal upgrade. This document is divided into two main sections:

  • Step A: Separating and Archiving User Changes from the Base Geoportal
  • Step B: Merging User Changes from a Previous Configuration into a New Geoportal Release

Step A: Separating and Archiving User Changes from the Base Geoportal

Recommended preparation: Copy the geoportal.xml file from the /conf/Catalina/localhost folder to /webapps/geoportal/META-INF folder. Rename the geoportal.xml file to context.xml. (Why do this? First, it saves your JDBC connection information. Secondly, if you repackage your geoportal installation as a war file and include a context.xml file in the META-INF folder, the geoportal.xml file will automatically get created from the context.xml file when you redeploy the .war file)

Procedure to Separate the User Changes

Step 1. Create a directory to save the user changed files

(Why? You need a place to store the user changes)
example: C:\geoportalServer\myGeoportalConfig
Step 2. Go to the \webapps\geoportal folder and inspect the folder modified dates. Make a note of the folder dates (they should all be the same).
(Why? We want to identify a date that separates the base geoportal installation files from the files that have been added or modified by the user)
Example: date to note is 5/18/2011
Step 3. Open command window in the \webapps\geoportal folder
example:
Step 4. Run an xcopy command to copy files newer than the date you identified in Step 2. The pattern of the xcopy command will be: xcopy 
 <destination></destination> /D:<mm-dd-yyyy></mm-dd-yyyy> /S
where 









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       will typically be *.*
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    • <destination></destination> is the directory path location you created in Step 1
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    • /D: is a directive to specify copying files changed on or after the input date
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    • <mm-dd-yyyy></mm-dd-yyyy>  is the input date cutoff between original geoportal files and user modified/added files.  Add one (1) day to the date identified in Step 2
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    • /S is a directive to copy subdirectories (except empty ones)
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Example:  xcopy *.* <destination></destination> /D:05-19-2011 /S

Step 5.	Check that the files you expect to be copied were transferred to the directory you created in Step 1.








Example:







End Result:





You should have an archive of all of your deployed geoportal user configuration and user modifications.





Step B:  Merging User Changes from a Previous Configuration into a New Geoportal Release





Purpose:  Upgrade an existing geoportal deployment to a new geoportal server release.  



Prerequisite:  Successfully completing the steps in 'Separating and Archiving User Changes from the Base Geoportal' specified above.





Procedure:






Step 1.	Download a new Geoportal Server release from https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoportal/files/  to a working directory






Example:  c:\ArcGIS\geoportalServer\newRelease

Step 2.	Unzip the release and locate the geoportal.war file




Example:  C:\geoportalServer\newRelease\geoportal-1.1\Web Applications\Geoportal\geoportal.war

Step 3.	Make a copy of geoportal.war and rename it as geoportal.zip







Example:  





Step 4.	Unzip geoportal.zip







Example:





Step 5.	Go back to the directory where your geoportal user changes are stored







example:  C:\geoportalServer\myGeoportalConfig 



 



Step 6.	Sequentially go through each file in each subdirectory of your saved geoportal user changes and either:












    

  1. Copy the file to the newRelease geoportal folder (created from unzipping the geoportal.war file), if the file does not exist there already
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  2. Open the old user file from myGeoportalConfig and the new file from the newRelease and Merge changes from old to new on a line by line basis, if the file exists in both locations

    3. 



Sidebar Note:  Notepad++ can be used to compare and merge changes between two files:  





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    • Copy any desired changes from the old myGeoportalConfig to the new newRelease version of the file.
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    • Save changes in the newRelease version of the file.
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Step 7.	Select all the files inside the newRelease version of the geoportal folder.







example:  all files inside C:\geoportalServer\newRelease\geoportal-1.1\Web Applications\Geoportal\geoportal





Step 8.	Zip all the file contents to geoportal.zip







Example:  





Step 9.	Rename geoportal.zip as geoportal.war


Step 10.  Deploy this geoportal.war file to Tomcat (after first undeploying and deleting the old geoportal deployment folders and war file.





End Result:





You should have a geoportal webapp deployed that contains all of your user-configured settings and modifications from the former installation while the underlying geoportal software has been upgraded to the newer release.

              


          



  
          

            


            
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