BROWSE CATDV SUPPORT MANUALS

Because the Live HTML Publisher is intended as a toolkit, designed to be customized and integrated with your existing web site, it is not possible for the installer to automatically upgrade an existing installation. Please use the following instructions as a guideline and refer to your systems integrator or web site maintainer for further details as required.

Updating the Live HTML Publisher (full upgrade)

  1. Shut down the Apache Tomcat (or OC4X) server
  2. Identify the Tomcat directory, eg. /Library/Tomcat or /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24 or C:Tomcat4.1 or C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 5.0.25 which you are running from.
  3. Rename the webapps/catdv directory to catdv.old
  4. Copy catdv.war from the install/webapp directory of the installation archive to the Tomcat webapps directory. (If necessary, overwrite any old catdv.war file there.)
  5. Restart Tomcat (or OC4X) and visit http://localhost:8080/catdv/index.html (or other port number as you previously used) with a web browser. This will automatically unpack the catdv.war file and create a new catdv web application in the webapps folder. The installation is not yet complete however.
  6. If you customised any of the JSP files or added custom resources such as icons or static pages, copy these from webapps/catdv.old to the webapps/catdv directory or manually reapply your changes.
  7. Edit the webapps/catdv/WEB-INF/web.xml file with a text editor and change the catdv.properties value to point to the catdv.properties file in the workgroup server directory you installed in the previous section. (Although the catdv webapp automatically searches various standard locations for this file it is better to configure the correct path explicitly.)
  8. Open the old webapps/catdv.old/WEB-INF/web.xml configuration file. If you entered values for media.path, media.url, preview.path, preview.url or timecode.format here, copy these values to the catdv.properties file. Note that while the format of the file is quite different, the meaning of these settings is the same, but beware that any backslashes in Windows file paths now need to be doubled up, eg. “C:\CatDV\Preview Files”. This is because backslash is used as a special ‘escape’ character to quote the next character.
  9. Using your web browser, visit the Server Statistics and other pages to check that they operate correctly as before.

Updating the Live HTML Publisher (minor updates)

Alternatively, if you are performing a minor version update, it may not be necessary to replace all the files and a simpler update procedure may be sufficient:

  1. Shut down the Apache Tomcat (or OC4X) server
  2. Identify the Tomcat directory, eg. /Library/Tomcat or /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24 or C:Tomcat4.1 or C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 5.0.25 which you are running from.
  3. Make a backup copy of the file webapps/catdv/WEB-INF/lib/catdvServlets.jar and replace it with the file of the same name from the current installation archive.
  4. Restart the Tomcat server and check you can access the Live HTML Publisher pages.