Control Centre and Server Update

It is assumed that the Portus Control Centre has already been installed, as detailed in the respective section of this installation guide.

This section describes how to update the Control Centre and also the server installation kits to a level higher than the one currently installed

There are two ways to do the update

1) If you have Internet Access -

• Choose Help -> Install New Software.
• Choose the Portus Update Site URL as provided by product support.
• Uncheck "Contact all update sites during install ... "

2) If you have been provided with a .zip file containing Portus updates -

• Choose Help -> Install New Software.
• Click Add..
• In the Add Repository Dialog box - In the Name field enter a name for this update meaningful to you
• Click the Archive... button and browse to the location of the .zip file and select it.
• Click OK

If newer versions are found, they will be presented as available, select the item(s) you wish and Click Next and you will be asked to restart eclipse.

If you followed the steps above, you now have successfully updated your Control Centre, and have downloaded the updated server installation files.

From the Portus Deployment Wizard click the "Launch Setup" button. The wizard will check for an existing version and if located, will proceed with the update.

Note: The check for an existing install may take 30+ seconds on some machines that have a large amount of data in the registry.

Once an the wizard has located the install it will display a confirmation dialog. When confirmed the wizard will begin the process of backing up configuration files, updating and restarting the server. The Windows UAC (if enabled) will prompt you for Administrator privileges a number of times during this process.

Note: The server will be unable to restart if the updated server is installed to a different disk to the previous installation. E.g. If an existing server is installed on C: and is uninstalled and reinstalled to D: it will fail. If this occurs a manual restart of the Apache server is required. The server must be stopped then started.

After the process completes return to the control center view and refresh the server.

Note: If you have changed the Portus Windows Service to start as a user other than SYSTEM, you need to run "services.msc" and re-apply this modification

Manual Backup for Failed Install

If the MSI encounters an error during the reinstall process the automated restoration of config files will not complete and a manual backup is required or the data will be lost.

Files will be backed up to the OS default temp directory. The temp directory can be located by clicking start->run and entering %temp% .

Inside this folder you will find the product license file, sampleConfig-win.xml, portusHttpd.conf and portusSSL.conf. Copy these files to a new location (eg. Desktop).

Follow the steps to install a new server. Once the install is complete go to the ProgramData (hidden by default) and copy the 4 files you backed up to this directory.

C:\ProgramData\Portus 4.3.1\configuration