The Traction installer is designed to perform both fresh installs and upgrades using the same installation procedure.
The upgrade will not overwrite your existing journals or configuration files that you have added.
Generally upgrades can be performed in about 5 minutes.
To upgrade an existing Traction installation, you will repeat the identical steps you used to perform the original install, selecting the same location into which to install.
In order to prepare for and execute the upgrade process, follow these steps:
1. Download the current version of the correct installer for your server platform from download.traction….
2. Shut down TeamPage by stopping the service, or from your browser by clicking "Shut Down TeamPage" on the server settings > General page. When you have established that the service has stopped, check whether the "JavaDB" or "JavaDB for Traction" service is also running, and stop that, as well.
3. Run the Installer, specifying the same location as the original installation, e.g. C:\Program Files\Traction as the installation location. On Windows you should always reinstall the service during each upgrade as well.
4. At the end of the update process, the installer may prompt you to let it start the service for you. You can use this option if you want, r you can start the TeamPage service yourself. Either way, if you stopped a "JavaDB" service in step 2, start that before starting TeamPage.
You can monitor the progress of TeamPage's startup process to see when its web server is ready to accept connections by looking at the console output file server/traction.out.txt (e.g., tail -f server/traction.out.txt on Unix or Linux).