Upgrading the SDL Tridion Docs 13 SP1 or SDL Knowledge Center 13 RESTful API

Upgrade the set of resources in your client web application that constitute the RESTful API.

Procedure

  1. On your client machine, where the RESTful API is set up, navigate to your web application's WEB-INF/ directory.
  2. Navigate to its configuration subdirectory, classes/.
  3. Back up the contents of this folder to a safe location.
  4. On your SDL Tridion Docs 14 installation media, navigate to the folder Content Delivery\roles\.
  5. Navigate to the api\rest\java\ subfolder.
  6. Navigate to the config\ subfolder.
  7. Merge the configuration files in this location with the ones in your WEB-INF/classes/ directory, taking care to preserve any customizations you may have made to these files.
  8. On your client machine, navigate to the sibling directory WEB-INF/lib/.
  9. Back up the contents of this folder to a safe location.
  10. Delete the contents of this folder.
  11. On the installation media, navigate to the sibling folder Content Delivery\roles\api\rest\java\lib\.
  12. Copy over all files from the installation media to the web application's library directory, overwriting files when prompted.
  13. Restore all custom JAR files that you backed up.
  14. Restart your web application.