OrionSupport, Upgrading to the current version

Upgrading to the current version

Written by Joseph Ottinger

The current stable version of Orion can always be downloaded by going to the Orion directory, shutting down Orion completely, and executing:

 java -jar autoupdate.jar

Not shutting down Orion while updating can cause the JVM to go into a busy loop, which can be very difficult to break out of if you don't have direct access to the server. This comes from personal experience. Note also that you may want to back up your configuration directories, as well as the default web application's __index.html__ before you do this, just in case you're using the default deployment directory. Also, if you're behind a proxy, as many users are, you'll need to specify some extra parameters, as so:

java -DproxyHost=[proxy name] -DproxyPort=[proxy port] -jar autoupdate.jar