Release 1.1.3

geoserver upgrade

We must be root for each of the following steps.

sudo su - root

install the latest version of java

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/production/java.html

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/linux/linux-jre.html#install-64-rpm

wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jre-7-linux-x64.rpm"
rpm -ivh jre-7-linux-x64.rpm?AuthParam=1347904319_53c7d4517bc08e457c15c859a1ba216e

add these lines to ~root/.bashrc

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.7.0
export JAVA_HOME  
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH  
export PATH

install JAI

http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/1_1_3/

wget http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/1_1_3/jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-amd64-jre.bin
cp jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-amd64-jre.bin /usr/java/jre1.7.0
cd /usr/java/jre1.7.0
sh jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-amd64-jre.bin

install tomcat 7

http://davidghedini.blogspot.com/2011/02/install-tomcat-7-on-centos-rhel.html

wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.30/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
cd /usr/share
tar xvfz ~/apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
chown -Rf tomcat:tomcat /usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.30/

configure tomcat startup

cd /etc/init.d
svn export http://eas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geoserver/tomcat
dos2unix tomcat
chmod 755 tomcat
chkconfig --add tomcat  
chkconfig --level 234 tomcat on  
chkconfig --list tomcat

tomcat start, stop, restart

service tomcat start
service tomcat stop
service tomcat restart

inspect log files for errors

view  /usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.30/logs/catalina.out