Maintenance

Upgrading GeoNetwork

GeoNetwork updates will come in the form of new geonetwork.war files.

Usually upgrading to a new minor release is simply a matter of cleaning the Tomcat webapps/ directory.

1. Stop Apache Tomcat

2. Backup your DB

3. Backup webapps/geonetwork/, especially if you didn’t externalize the data directory

4. Cleanup:

   • remove the file webapps/geonetwork.war
   • remove the exploded webapps/geonetwork/ directory.
   • In case you externalized the data dir, remove the Wro4j cache files (<DATA_DIR>/wro4j-cache.h2.db)

5. Copy the new geonetwork.war file in webapps

6. Run tomcat to expand the war file, or expand it by hand:

   cd webapps
   mkdir geonetwork
   cd geonetwork
   jar xf ../geonetwork.war

7. Repeat the changes for non-externalizable files, such as:

   • Enable INSPIRE view ( Enable the INSPIRE view (only needed in GN < 3.2.1))
   • Enable INSPIRE CSS ( CSS files)
   • Update log file location ( Log file location)

8. For non-externalized data dir, restore the data directory (webapps/geonetwork/WEB-INF/data/) from the backup done in one of the first steps.

9. Restart Apache Tomcat