tomcatupdate

Defacto2 Apache Tomcat migration tool

 

Usage in Windows has been disabled as it relies on POSIX compatible permission bits.

Created in Go, to build from source.

Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/Defacto2/tomcatupdate.git

Install the dependencies.

go get github.com/dustin/go-humanize && go get github.com/phayes/permbits

Update the const values for both userID and groupID for the tomcat user and group ids.

• cat /etc/passwd will have the user
• cat /etc/group will have the group

cd tomcatupdate
nano tomcatupdate

const (
	userID      = 0
	groupID     = 0
)

go build

./tomcatupdate -h

Usage of ./tomcatupdate:
  -dir string
        path to existing Tomcat 8.5 install (default "/opt/tomcat8")
  -log
        log any errors with timestamps
  -quiet
        suppress terminal output
  -ver int
        version of Tomcat 8.5.* to download (default -1)
  -verbose
        detail each file and directory that is handled