Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Courcy
Caldarale, Charles R a écrit : From: Michael Courcy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works? How do you manage the problem, if you need to define a Host element whith many Alias ? Hosts are a completely different problem, since

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-19 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi 2) User places our clean database file in the recommended location on the server machine. i.e c\databse\ourfile.gdb A off-topic side note on this: The c and the backslashes suggest you are using windows. The gdb extension suggest you are using firebird or interbase. My recommendation:

Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Hencin
several of the same apps with diffrent db's on our servers for demo purposes. Mike - Original Message From: Steffen Heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:45:37 AM Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? Hi

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Jason Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: placing context.xml in META-INF works? I have a context.xml file that looks basically like this: Context path=/portal debug=0 reloadable=false crossContext=true/ Take out the path attribute - it's not allowed unless the Context

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Hencin
this context file to be copied to the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory when my webapp is deployed. Mike -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:28 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: placing context.xml

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Michael Hencin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? I want this context file to be copied to the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory do that the users can use the default JNDI and env values I enter. Why does the location

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Hencin
. It would connect. Mike -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:44 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? From: Michael Hencin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: placing context.xml

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Hencin
and it should work out of the gate. Mike -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:44 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? From: Michael Hencin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Michael Hencin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? Also my target users are not tomcat savvy. So the less they need to do, the better. Having a pre-configured context file get deployed the first time, makes it easy. They just drop our war

Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Courcy
Take out the path attribute - it's not allowed unless the Context element is in server.xml, which is strongly discouraged. why ? Mic - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
Michael, I want to pre-setup the configuration. I enter all the parameters, for the JDNCI info, and then the user only needs to install the webapp and if they use the default database location setting, it would work. Isn't this what conf/server.xml is for? I mean, I'm no Tomcat 5.x expert,

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Michael Courcy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works? Take out the path attribute - it's not allowed unless the Context element is in server.xml, which is strongly discouraged. why ? Because you have to restart Tomcat if you make any

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works? Isn't this what conf/server.xml is for? I mean, I'm no Tomcat 5.x expert, but that's what I'd do way back here in Tomcat 4.1. Things have changed. Global resources should be defined

Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
Chuck, Isn't this what conf/server.xml is for? I mean, I'm no Tomcat 5.x expert, but that's what I'd do way back here in Tomcat 4.1. Things have changed. Global resources should be defined in server.xml, but app-specific ones belong in the Context element for that app. Specifying them

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works? I get that, but it sounds like that's exactly what this guy wants: configuration that is available to all of his webapps, and never changes. If it smells like a global resource...? I

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Hencin
it to work. -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:49 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml

Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Courcy
Because you have to restart Tomcat if you make any changes to server.xml - it's only read during initialization. Consequently, updating the app on the fly when its Context tag is in server.xml is not possible. To quote from the doc: ok Actually I'm not pretty sure to be ok. How do

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Michael Hencin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works? My ideal sequence of events is this. 1) User installs tomcat 2) User places our clean database file in the recommended location on the server machine. i.e c\databse\ourfile.gdb 3) User

RE: placing context.xml in META-INF works?

2006-10-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Michael Courcy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: placing context.xml in META-INF works? How do you manage the problem, if you need to define a Host element whith many Alias ? Hosts are a completely different problem, since they are not subordinate to an app. Can you put