Upgrading the WorldServer software through the installer

After you finish upgrading your database schema, you need to upgrade WorldServer on your application server.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have backed up all the necessary files and that you have upgraded your database schema.

Procedure

  1. Uninstall your previous version of WorldServer.
    For Windows, use Add or Remove Programs.
  2. Download the distribution kit of the WorldServer version to which you want to upgrade and copy it to your application server.
  3. Go to the Installers folder of the WorldServer distribution kit and run the WorldServer.Setup.msi installer, which will install new versions of WorldServer, Tomcat, and Java.
  4. Optional: Install the WorldServer Report Center.
  5. Optional: If you implemented additional custom code in an earlier version of WorldServer, recompile the code against the new version of WorldServer and upload it again.
  6. Optional: If you keep an exchange.properties file with custom properties in the WS_CONFIG folder, do the following:
    1. Open the file and search for a line called studioLocaleMapping51 = Norwegian, no.
    2. If the studioLocaleMapping51 = Norwegian, no line is in the file, comment it out or delete it.
    3. Save and close the exchange.properties file.
  7. Start or restart WorldServer.
  8. Optional: If you are upgrading from a version earlier than 11.1 to WorldServer 11.1 or later and you want to use the Convert PDF to DOCX (Lib), upgrade all of your automatic actions by doing the following:
    1. Extract the contents of the WorldServer SDK archive to a location on your machine.
      You can find the SDK archive in the WorldServer distribution kit.
    2. In WorldServer, go to Management > Administration > Customization.
    3. In the Custom component type list, select Automatic Actions.
    4. Select Add.
    5. In the new window, select Browse, and then select the autoaction_libraries.zip file from the extracted SDK archive.
      You can find this file in the libraries\dist folder of the WorldServer SDK.
    6. Select OK.

Results

You have now finished upgrading the WorldServer software.