Jaye: There is a setting in the server.xml file for this. In the <Host> element add liveDeploy="true" This should, and I repeat should solve the problem.
Dave Patton > Jaye Bass wrote: > > My ant targets build directly into my webapp directories...the root > > location is set in an env variable. This really seems to work for us > > on a variety of systems (linux, windows, and occasionally macs) from > > development to ultimate deployment and maintenance. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:30 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: deploy with ant, best practices > > > > I have been studying ant very thoroughly over the past two days, and I > > completely understand the file from top to bottom, including how to > > reload the application using the <reload> tag imported from > > org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask. However, I am stuck on an issue. > > > > Assuming that I follow the techniques from the book Struts Kick Start, > > I create a development tree such as > > > > ${app.home} > > /build > > /deploy > > /object > > /src > > /lib > > /web > > /WEB-INF > > /META-INF > > > > then the actual target tree (under tomcat/webapps) is the typical > > > > ${app.name}.war > > ${app.name} > > /WEB-INF > > /WEB-INF/lib > > /WEB-INF/classes > > /META-INF > > > > Okay, now stay with me here. Assume that I currently have the > > application running under tomcat. If I build the .war file from the > > build/ directory and place it into ${app.home}/deploy, then copy it to > > ${app.name}.war under tomcat/webapps, it isn't going to automatically > > expand over the current running tree. It just sits there until I kick > > tomcat (restart it) after deleting the running application directory. > > > > So what I did instead was I made the build/ directory the actual > > running application directory so it just copied over the "live" files > > directly as they were updated by javac. Then a simple "reload" would > > cause the application to start using the updated files. > > > > The question on the table is as follows. How do you get tomcat to > > expand an updated .war file over a currently running application > > before you reload it? It seems wrong to have the "live" application > > the target of my build process. > > > > The goal here is to update the running application without having to > > restart tomcat and without having to use the running application as > > the target of the build process. I want to be able to copy the > > updated .war file into the tomcat/webapps folder and have it expand it > > over the running application files. Is this unreasonable to expect > > this? How does everyone else do it. Surely you are not restarting > > tomcat all day. > > > > Dan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
