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Deployment

Stop tomcat

$ sudo service tomcat stop

Download latest release

  1. Go to the the latest release page on GitHub.
  2. Right-click on openboxes.war
  3. Select Copy link address
  4. Paste the link address in the following command
$ sudo wget https://github.com/openboxes/openboxes/releases/download/<version>/openboxes.war

Copy WAR file to webapps

$ sudo cp openboxes.war /opt/tomcat/webapps/openboxes.war

Change file ownership

$ sudo chown tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps/openboxes.war

Restart Tomcat

$ sudo service tomcat start

Watch Tomcat logs

The deployment could take about 10-20 minutes the first time because the application needs to perform hundreds of database migrations. Keep an eye out for any errors/exceptions that pop up in the catalina.out log file and check the Troubleshooting section for details on how to handle these issues.

$ sudo tail -f /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.94/logs/catalina.out

Note

If you run into an error that's not covered in the Troubleshooting Guide don't hesitate to email support. Please describe the problem in as much detail as you can and attach the catalina.out log from your Tomcat instance.