jstrunk wrote:If I recompile JForum and copy the entire jforum folder to the Tomcat webapps folder, it wipes out any customization. I would like to refresh as much as possible on every deployment, without destroying anything that was created dynamically in my forum. Can someone give me a list of everything that should NOT be replaced when the app is redeployed?
Thanks.
The two key files
you should keep are your
jforum-custom.conf and your database configuration file (mine happens to be
mysql.properties since I use MySQL).
I use a custom theme too, so that is in a different directory than "default" .. so it doesn't get overwritten. If you have any customized files, you should make a list of them and make sure you have a backup of them for any future upgrades.
I don't typically deploy a new .war file for my upgrades, but do a
cp -R of the updated files (running Linux).
[originally posted on jforum.net by GatorBait3]
