Help me understand the manual update process

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I am trying to script Lucee updates, using PowerShell, so I don’t have to manually log into the Lucee admin in all my servers and update them.

Do these steps sound correct? I am running Lucee 5.x on Windows.

  1. Stop the Lucee service
  2. Remove any old jar files from C:\lucee\lib (I found that if I left the old ones in there, the new one would not be applied when I restart Lucee)
  3. Copy the new jar file into C:\lucee\lib
  4. Start the Lucee service

This seems to work, the only downside is I cannot roll back to a previous version through the admin interface. I would like that ability.

It seems that if I:

  1. Stop the Lucee service again
  2. Copy the previously removed jar files back into C:\lucee\lib
  3. Start the Lucee service

Now I have the previous versions in the drop down in the update page in the Lucee admin. I have not scripted this last part (copying the old jar files back into c:\lucee\lib) because I’m afraid if I stop the Lucee service in my script, immediately after the start service command completes, that the update will not be finished being deployed.

Thoughts? Thanks.

2

Could just copy the old files to \MybackupPath\something-datetimestamp\luceeFiles
Could enable shadowcopies on the lucee lib folder and take a backup as part of your script

3

Yes, I am copying them to a backup location. But I’m not sure how to get them back in place with the script, due to needing to wait a while after the restart to let the update finishing deploying.

Maybe you are suggesting to just leave them in the backup location, then manually copy them in if I need to roll back. I think that is a 2nd best option. :+1:

4

Post your code for your script,

there are a few ways of doing just that in power shell.

1 if the latest backup for example was always c:\backup\the-latest-backup\ & all other backups are in c:\backup\archive\whatever you could add a function to your script, “restore-latest”

ie backup.ps1 --restoremyfiles

function Restore-MyFiles {
    param (
        [string]$sourcePath = "C:\backup\the-latest-backup",
        [string]$destinationPath = "C:\lucee\lib"
    )

    #### Check if the source directory exists
    if (-not (Test-Path -Path $sourcePath -PathType Container)) {
        Write-Host "Source directory does not exist: $sourcePath"
        return
    }

    ## Check if the destination directory exists
    if (-not (Test-Path -Path $destinationPath -PathType Container)) {
        Write-Host "Destination directory does not exist: $destinationPath"
        return
    }

    # Copy files from source to destination
    try {
        Copy-Item -Path "$sourcePath\*" -Destination $destinationPath -Recurse -Force
        Write-Host "Files restored successfully from $sourcePath to $destinationPath"
    } catch {
        Write-Host "Error restoring files: $_"
    }
}

# #Example use:
#Restore-MyFiles
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