RE: Problem with respecting docBase in context file in TC 6.0.20?

2009-08-20 Thread Roger Powers
You may have already figured this out, but just in case: 1) The path attribute of a Context element may only be used when the Context element is nested inside a Host element in server.xml - which is strongly discouraged. 2) The docBase attribute of a Context element may only be used

Problem with respecting docBase in context file in TC 6.0.20?

2009-08-19 Thread Roger Powers
Problem: 1) /usr/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/t.xml has: Context path=/t docBase=webapps/a / 2) /usr/tomcat/webapps/a exists. 3) /usr/tomcat/webapps/t does not exist. 4) When tomcat starts, org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext:resourcesStart() throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:

Re: Problem with respecting docBase in context file in TC 6.0.20?

2009-08-19 Thread Roger Powers
Powers prog...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Powers prog...@yahoo.com Subject: Problem with respecting docBase in context file in TC 6.0.20? To: users@tomcat.apache.org Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 3:19 PM Problem: 1) /usr/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/t.xml has: Context path=/t docBase

Question on setting of context path in Tomcat 6

2009-08-19 Thread Roger Powers
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html says, after I removed some unimportant stuff and added some yellow to highlight: Context elements may be explicitly defined: ยท In individual files (with a .xml extension) in the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/

Setting maxThreads from outside tomcat

2009-07-30 Thread Roger Powers
Hi, I am making tomcat 6 work on different platforms that need different values for maxThreads in the Connector in server.xml. Ideally, I would set an environment variable and/or property that could be used when server.xml is read - is something like this supported? Or, worse case, it looks

Re: Setting maxThreads from outside tomcat

2009-07-30 Thread Roger Powers
Sorry, I just discovered that catalina.properties can be used to set variables that can be used in server.xml - problem solved! --- On Thu, 7/30/09, Roger Powers prog...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Powers prog...@yahoo.com Subject: Setting maxThreads from outside tomcat To: users