How to update Jira via Zip on windows server

[Nick]

Dear community!

Is there any experience updating the system on a Windows server using archive files? I can't understand the process, what needs to be changed to make the system work through the new version? 

The documentation is not entirely clear about which directories and files need to be changed and updated.

Can anyone share your update experience?

[Anandhi Arumugam _Cprime_]

Hi @Nick 

This documentation should help regarding upgrade using Archive.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-manual-938846939.html

Basically, you need to ensure that you take a backup of your home directory. From your installation directory, backup the drivers that support your database connection, server.xml, web.xml, setenv.bat, Jira-config.properties, any SSL settings you may have. That is any sort of customisation that you have within your installation directory.

Now rename your existing installation directory, extract the tar file into the same location and rename to your installation directory. Check the custom files, compare the backup and the new files to check for any modifications. Apply and start Jira.

Hope this helps!

[Nick]

@Anandhi Arumugam _Cprime_Hi Anandhi,

Thank you for your answer, but it is not entirely clear from it, which files need to be updated, everything is very different.

About the backup copy, it is clear, thanks!

How to understand this, can you please give a little more detail? "Now rename your existing installation directory, extract the tar file into the same location and rename to your installation directory".

The official documantations say, "point Jira to your existing Jira home directory", so I made changes to the jira-application.properties file.
jira.home = C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Application Data\\Jira, and for service.bat rem JIRA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Jira\jre\", as it was in the previous version

Jira works as a service in Winodws, before this update and installation were either through the installer, I don’t understand why Atlassian moved away from this, it was very convenient