What Jukka described DOES work and I have used it myself.
I suspect you are missing something. Restart Tomcat? Reboot should not be
required.
Russ
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On 11 Jun 2013, at 11:42, "Hakala Oiva (MTT)" <oiva.hak...@mtt.fi> wrote:
> I have tried all the options mentioned here:
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/data-dir-setting.html
>
> but without success!
>
> All they suggest to set data the directory to /var/lib/.... but that is
> definitely NOT the path, where I want my data to be.
>
> So, could anyone tell me, are there any other options, which really work ;)
>
> Thnx, Oiva
>
>
> Lähettäjä: Hakala Oiva (MTT) [oiva.hak...@mtt.fi]
> Lähetetty: 11. kesäkuuta 2013 12:36
> Vastaanottaja: 'geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
> Aihe: Re: [Geoserver-users] Tomcat7 and GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR ?
>
> Thanks Jukka.
>
> I uncommented that section, edited that param value and restarted, but no
> help.
>
> I have also tried to edit
> CATALINA_OPTS="-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/home/geoserver-data/" in
> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh -file and restart, but it did not help
> either.
>
> Oiva
> Lähettäjä: Rahkonen Jukka [jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi]
> Lähetetty: 11. kesäkuuta 2013 11:12
> Vastaanottaja: 'geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
> Aihe: Re: [Geoserver-users] Tomcat7 and GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR ?
>
> Hi,
>
> Try to edit webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml and restart. There is a
> commented example about giving GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR as context-param.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
> Hakala Oiva wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I just changed my test environment from Jetty-based to Tomcat7. Everything
> works, but how can I tell to Tomcat7, where is my data???
>
> I have set GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR environment variable right but Tomcat7 does not
> care whatever I set and restart Tomcat7
>
> Data diretory always stays the same: /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data
>
> I work with Ubuntu Linux 12.04.
>
> Can anyone help, I am new with Tomcat7.
>
> Thanks, Oiva
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