Upgrading the WorldServer software

After you finish upgrading your database, you must upgrade WorldServer on your application server.

Procedure

  1. Uninstall your previous WorldServer instance (for Windows, use Add or Remove Programs to select SDL WorldServer).
    This is particularly important if you are upgrading from a WorldServer 10.0 32-bit installation to a later version on a 64-bit environment.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • For Windows: Run setup_64.exe for 64-bit systems and extract the WS11<build number>_win.zip distribution file.
    The installer installs new versions of WorldServer, Tomcat, and Java Runtime Environment. You do not need to download or install the ws.war, ws-legacy.war, and ws-api.war files. These files are included in the distribution kit of the operating system.
    • For Linux: Extract the WS11<build number>_unix.tar.gz distribution kit.
  3. Make sure that WorldServer is stopped.
    You can stop and start WorldServer via the application server onto which it is deployed.
  4. Deploy your WorldServer upgrade.
  5. Optional: Install the WorldServer Report Center.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Restart WorldServer.
  9. 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 Word 2007-2010 automatic action, 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. Click Add.
    5. In the new window, click 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. Click OK.