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This documentation relates to an old version of DSpace, version 3.x. Looking for another version? See all documentation.
This DSpace release is end-of-life and is no longer supported.
In the notes below [dspace]
refers to the install directory for your existing DSpace installation, and [dspace-source]
to the source directory for DSpace 1.7.2. Whenever you see these path references, be sure to replace them with the actual path names on your local system. Additionally, be sure to backup your configs, source code modifications, and database before doing a step that could destroy your instance.
[dspace-source]/dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/webapp/
[dspace-source]/dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/webapp/
[dspace]/config
cd [dspace-source]/dspace/ mvn -U clean package
[dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-[version]-build.dir
. Inside this directory is the compiled binary distribution of DSpace. Before rebuilding DSpace ('package'), the above command will clean out any previously compiled code ('clean') and ensure that your local DSpace JAR files are updated from the remote maven repository.$CATALINA/shutdown.sh
script. (Many Unix-based installations will have a startup/shutdown script in the /etc/init.d
or /etc/rc.d
directories.)[dspace]/assetstore
by default, and any other assetstores configured in the [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg
"assetstore.dir" and "assetstore.dir.#" settings)cd [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-[version]-build.dir ant -Dconfig=[dspace]/config/dspace.cfg update
[dspace]/bin/dspace index-init
[dspace]/webapps
directory to the subdirectory of your servlet container (e.g. tomcat):
cp -R [dspace]/webapps/* [tomcat]/webapps/