RE: Can I pass values to application configuration file on command line
You could use a script to edit your appconfig.xml with the value. Try the
replace command that comes with MySQL:
APP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here
replace to-be-replaced $APP_PATH -- appconfig.xml
Then do your tomcat startup as you have suggested by setting a system
property on the command line with $APP_PATH
Rob
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From: Jim Cant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 July 2008 15:51
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Can I pass values to application configuration file on command line
Is there a way I can use replaceable parameters in an application's xml
configuration file and pass a value in on the Tomcat command line. In
particular, I would like to set the value of docBase so that I can launch
tomcat and have it find my app in different locations without having to edit
the xml config file.
For example, in the application config file
(say, $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myAppConfig.xml)
put something like
Context path=/theAppPathdocBase=${APP_PATH} ...
so that ${APP_PATH} (or whatever the correct syntax is) gets replaced when
Tomcat is started with something like
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup ... -DAPP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here ...
and have the value for the variable replace the placeholder in the config
file.
Thanks a lot,
Jim Cant
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Re: Can I pass values to application configuration file on command line
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim, Jim Cant wrote: | Is there a way I can use replaceable parameters in an application's xml | configuration file and pass a value in on the Tomcat command line. In | particular, I would like to set the value of docBase so that I can launch | tomcat and have it find my app in different locations without having to edit | the xml config file. We use ant for this purpose. We just create a server.xml template with replaceable parameters embedded in the file and then use ant's filtering capability when copying the template to the actual deployment location to do the replacements for us. I don't know if that fits into your deployment strategy, but we've kind of built ours around that, so it works well for us ;) - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiHT2QACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC+fQCfexAq2LSyHpNk7aTVVd05A/Sf cD0An1tDsy/DuEyrZlnRIxR0fwrr43Uk =urBA -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I pass values to application configuration file on command line
Jim Cant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Is there a way I can use replaceable parameters in an application's xml
configuration file and pass a value in on the Tomcat command line. In
particular, I would like to set the value of docBase so that I can launch
tomcat and have it find my app in different locations without having to
edit
the xml config file.
For example, in the application config file
(say, $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myAppConfig.xml)
put something like
Context path=/theAppPathdocBase=${APP_PATH} ...
so that ${APP_PATH} (or whatever the correct syntax is) gets replaced when
Tomcat is started with something like
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup ... -DAPP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here ...
This won't work, but (assuming that you have a reasonably receint Tomcat) if
you create a setenv.sh in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory that includes:
CATALINA_OPTS=-DAPP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here
export CATALINA_OPTS
then Tomcat will perform the variable replacement when parsing the
context.xml file.
and have the value for the variable replace the placeholder in the config
file.
Thanks a lot,
Jim Cant
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