When you get the new version news for Ant Media Server AMI, you may want to use the new version. There are two alternatives: just start a new EC2 instance through AWS Marketplace or install the new version manually on the running server. This post is a guide for you that tells how you can upgrade manually.

Installation On Running AWS Instance:

• Contact Us: send email to contact@antmedia.io and ask for the new version
• Connect your server with ssh
• Download the new version of Ant Media Server to your instance
• Install new version as explained in this document

If you made a new fresh installation, you need to copy configuration and properties file below from old installation to the new installation.

• Files with db extension under /usr/local/antmedia
• Properties file
  1. /usr/local/antmedia/webapps/WebRTCAppEE/WEB-INF/red5-web.properties
  2. /usr/local/antmedia/webapps/LiveApp/WEB-INF/red5-web.properties
• For VOD files
  1. /usr/local/antmedia-backup/webapps/application/streams folder to /usr/local/antmedia/webapps/application/

The last but not least, when you make a fresh installation or update over older version, previous installation will be backup in /usr/local directory with a timestamp value like antmedia-20200822.