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Upgrading the on-prem server.​

For the upgrade of on-prem server on any platfrom, the general steps are:

  1. Stopping the currently running server
  2. Downloading and the setting the new AOP Server.
  3. Reactivate the new AOP Server.

1. Stopping the currently running server.​

  • In Windows,

    • When APEXOfficePrint is setup as a service manually, If AOP is running as a service, you can use Windows Services to stop the APEXOfficePrint Service.

      (To start Services: Press the ⊞ Win + R keys simultaneously. Type services. msc . Press OK or hit ↵ Enter . )Also, you need to remove the Service by running the following commands in the CMD(run as Administrator)
    Terminal (run as Administrator)
    # Provide the Service Name eg: APAPEXOfficePrint
    # SC REMOVE <AOP_Service_Name>
    SC REMOVE APEXOfficePrint

    • If you have used the bat file provided in the APEXOfficePrint.zip (downloaded from AOP Portal) for running AOP as a service, you can run 3_StopService.bat and 4_RemoveService.bat in order to stop and remove the AOP Service.

    • If AOP is running in the terminal, you can click on Ctrl+C to stop the AOP or use Task Manager to kill APEXOfficePrintWin64.exe.

  • In Linux,

    • If AOP is running as service, you can use systemctl stop aop to stop the service.
    • If AOP is running in the terminal, you can click on Ctrl+C to stop the AOP.

2. Downloading and setting up the new AOP Server.​

You can download the new AOP version after logging in from the AOP Portal Login from the Downloads section. The zip of the selected AOP Version is downloaded which you can extract to the designated AOP directory.

3. Reactivate the new AOP Server​

For the detailed instruction on the reactivation of the AOP. Refer to Activate and manual start APEX Office Print

After the reactivation, based on your previous runing mode you can again setup AOP as a service, or use terminal for running AOP.

Upgrading the plugins and PL/SQL packages.​

For the detailed info about the upgrade of Plugins and PL/SQL packages, refer to Quick Upgrade Guide.