Upgrading Online Editor

Upgrading Online Editor involves deleting the existing services and installing the new version of Online Editor from scratch. You can upgrade Online Editor either through the new OnlineEditorSetup.msi installer, which automates most of the configuration work, or manually, by using the Chef Solo kit in the integrations\Online Editor folder of the WorldServer distribution kit.

About this task

When you upgrade to the latest version of Online Editor, the Online Editor services are also upgraded:
  • The BCM Service is upgraded to version 5.3.25.
  • The Editor Service is upgraded to version 1.50.35.
  • The Editor Service Router is upgraded to version 2.0.41.
  • The Verification Service is upgraded to version 2.1.3.

Procedure

  1. Stop the Online Editor services by doing the following:
    1. Start a Windows PowerShell session as an administrator.
    2. Run the following command: services.msc
    3. In the Services window, select each Online Editor service and stop it, as shown in the following image:A screen shot that shows the three SDL Online Editor services that you need to stop.
  2. Open the Windows Task Manager and end all the processes related to Online Editor that might still be running:A screen shot that highlights the processes that you need to stop in the Task Manager.
  3. Back up your RaptorDB folder.
    Throughout this topic, the name of your existing RaptorDB folder will be referred to as <initial-DB-location>. By default, RaptorDB was installed under C:\RaptorDb.
  4. Back up the Online Editor installation folder.
    Throughout this topic, the name of the Online Editor is installed will be referred to as <OE-installation-folder>. By default, it is located under C:\chef_solo_ue.
  5. Open the command prompt (CMD) as an administrator and run the following commands:
    #Execute in Windows Command Prompt as an administrator
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc delete "SDL BCM Service"
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc delete "SDL Editor Service" 
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc delete "SDL Editor Service Router"
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc delete "SDL Verification Service"
    The output of each command should be [SC] DeleteService SUCCESS.
  6. Back up the configuration files of the following Online Editor services.
    By default, they are located under the following paths:
    • C:\Program Files\SDL\Editor Service\bin\Sdl.EditorService.Host.exe.config
    • C:\Program Files\SDL\Editor Service Router\bin\Sdl.EditorServiceRouter.Host.exe.config
    • C:\Program Files\SDL\VerificationService\Sdl.Verification.Host.exe.config
  7. Delete the Online Editor installation folder.
  8. Delete all the subfolders in the Deployment folder.
    By default, it is located under C:\Deployment.
  9. Do one of the following:

What to do next

Validate the deployment of the Online Editor services.