Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-12 Thread Michael Ludwig
André Warnier schrieb am 10.06.2010 um 21:52 (+0200): Assuming that some rogue application or filter *requires* site-specific parameters in web.xml, normally like so : ... init-param param-nameparameter1/param-name param-valuevalue1/param-value /init-param

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Chris, Christopher Schultz wrote on 09.06.2010 20:31: It's not terribly unusual to roll a client-specific WAR file for some reason. In what way does Tomcat interfere with your ability to build a client-specific WAR? Tomcat should not be involved in the WAR-creation process. ok, it looks

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: Mark H. Wood wrote on 09.06.2010 17:03: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: the problems I have are: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Mark H. Wood wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: Mark H. Wood wrote on 09.06.2010 17:03: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: the problems I have are: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread Pid
On 10/06/2010 16:43, André Warnier wrote: If at the same time you have a customer who insists on receiving war files for application updates, you're cooked, because you have to build a customer-specific war file every time. This might be /tedious/, but it's not /hard/. If it was something

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2010/6/10 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com: Let me speak for the OP, and for others like me who do not necessarily write the applications and filters which they are installing on customer systems. Sometimes, you have to deal with such third-party modules, which have to be used e.g. as a servlet

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Thomas
On 10/06/2010 20:52, André Warnier wrote: Does there exist *any* way to put the actual values value1, value2, etc.. in some place *outside* the web.xml file, and *outside* the war that would be created for this application, and still allow the application, on startup, to read the values of

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 10/06/2010 20:52, André Warnier wrote: Does there exist *any* way to put the actual values value1, value2, etc.. in some place *outside* the web.xml file, and *outside* the war that would be created for this application, and still allow the application, on startup, to read

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Konstantin Kolinko wrote: 2010/6/10 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com: Let me speak for the OP, and for others like me who do not necessarily write the applications and filters which they are installing on customer systems. Sometimes, you have to deal with such third-party modules, which have to be

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread David kerber
On 6/10/2010 3:52 PM, André Warnier wrote: ... Does there exist *any* way to put the actual values value1, value2, etc.. in some place *outside* the web.xml file, and *outside* the war that would be created for this application, and still allow the application, on startup, to read the values

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-10 Thread André Warnier
David kerber wrote: On 6/10/2010 3:52 PM, André Warnier wrote: ... Does there exist *any* way to put the actual values value1, value2, etc.. in some place *outside* the web.xml file, and *outside* the war that would be created for this application, and still allow the application, on

How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Dear List, I'm a newbie to Apache and Tomcat, so pls forgive my ignorance. I have the following problem/question: I have a web application which needs to be configured with site-specific information when/after it is deployed. What is the best/proper way of doing this? Right now I use an

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Pid
On 09/06/2010 12:46, Thomas Kloeber wrote: Dear List, I'm a newbie to Apache and Tomcat, so pls forgive my ignorance. I have the following problem/question: I have a web application which needs to be configured with site-specific information when/after it is deployed. What is the

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Pid wrote on 09.06.2010 14:00: Depends what the information you need to store is. Maybe you can elucidate? I need to set user and password for SPNEGO filter and the location of krb5.conf/login.conf in web.xml, and I need to set an IP address of a backend-server for one of my servlets in

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Leon Rosenberg
http://www.configureme.org it supports hot updates of the configs, if you update the configs after the application has been started the configured parts will be reconfigured. regards Leon On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Thomas Kloeber kloe...@ics.de wrote: Dear List, I'm a newbie to Apache

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Leon Rosenberg wrote on 09.06.2010 14:53: http://www.configureme.org it supports hot updates of the configs, if you update the configs after the application has been started the configured parts will be reconfigured. thanx for the idea. But I'm not looking for a configuration of my app but

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread André Warnier
Thomas Kloeber wrote: Leon Rosenberg wrote on 09.06.2010 14:53: http://www.configureme.org it supports hot updates of the configs, if you update the configs after the application has been started the configured parts will be reconfigured. thanx for the idea. But I'm not looking for a

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
André Warnier wrote on 09.06.2010 15:20: Inthink you should have a look at the Manager application (delivered along with Tomcat when downloading from the main Tomcat site). The Manager allows you to deploy, undelploy, start and stop one application, without stopping/restarting Tomcat as a

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread David kerber
On 6/9/2010 9:36 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: André Warnier wrote on 09.06.2010 15:20: Inthink you should have a look at the Manager application (delivered along with Tomcat when downloading from the main Tomcat site). The Manager allows you to deploy, undelploy, start and stop one application,

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
David kerber wrote on 09.06.2010 15:45: On 6/9/2010 9:36 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: Is this such an unusal thing that one has to configure webapp files with site specific information? Beyond 1-time initial configuration, I would say it is unusual. it is a 1-time configuration, not something

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread David kerber
On 6/9/2010 10:19 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: ... * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs to be configured (in context.xml), so I can't get any data from the db unless it is configured... * the other confgurables (SPNEGO and kerberos

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
David kerber wrote on 09.06.2010 16:32: On 6/9/2010 10:19 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs to be configured (in context.xml), so I can't get any data from the db unless it is configured... * the other

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Ognjen Blagojevic
On 9.6.2010 16:19, Thomas Kloeber wrote: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs to be configured (in context.xml), so I can't get any data from the db unless it is configured... * the other confgurables (SPNEGO and kerberos stuff) are in

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Ognjen Blagojevic wrote on 09.06.2010 16:46: I pack different war files for several clients. They only differ in context.xml and log4j.properties files. My packaging tool (Maven) take care of this. that is something I actually want to avoid, it seems a terrible overhead (depending on the

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: the problems I have are: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs to be configured (in context.xml), so I can't get any data from the db unless it is configured... * the

RE: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Thomas Kloeber [mailto:kloe...@ics.de] Subject: Re: How to configure a web app how do you make changes in context.xml inside archive? Unpack it with the jar utility, update, repack. Alternatively, you can supply the Context element in a separate file, and have the admin put

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kloeber
Mark H. Wood wrote on 09.06.2010 17:03: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Thomas Kloeber wrote: the problems I have are: * the IP address of the backing database is one of the parameters that needs to be configured (in context.xml), so I can't get any data from

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread André Warnier
Thomas Kloeber wrote: David kerber wrote on 09.06.2010 15:45: On 6/9/2010 9:36 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: Is this such an unusal thing that one has to configure webapp files with site specific information? Beyond 1-time initial configuration, I would say it is unusual. it is a 1-time

Re: How to configure a web app

2010-06-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas, On 6/9/2010 9:36 AM, Thomas Kloeber wrote: André Warnier wrote on 09.06.2010 15:20: Inthink you should have a look at the Manager application (delivered along with Tomcat when downloading from the main Tomcat site). The Manager allows you