This solution has each user run their own version of tomcat. Doesn't this
cause extra overhead. Ten users would be running ten JVMs.
Is it possible to run just run one JVM and map servlets and jsp files as a
mime type that Apache sends over to Tomcat?
Thanks,
--Rick Anderson
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Richard Wooding wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes we do something just like that at our development company. We are using
> Apache/Tomcat on Redhat Linux 6.2. You can do this my configuring Tomcat for
> multiple JVMs or by using Virtual Hosting with multiple JVMs. (Each JVM does
> carry a memory footprint/overhead though :-( ). You can find out to do this
> at
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/tomcat-apache-howto.
> html under the headings "Configuring Tomcat for multiple JVMs" and
> "Configuring Virtual Hosting". I then used the wu_ftp to give each developer
> ftp access to his own server.xml, web.xml, and webapps etc.
>
> If you are using Windows NT, IIS or another webserver - it should also be
> possible - but I don't know how.
>
> Regards
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Multiple Developers using Tomcat
>
>
> Shouldn't it be possible to setup one version of Tomcat the hooks into
> Apache and allows each user to execute their own servlets? This would
> occur in each user public_html directory.
>
> --Rick Anderson
>
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> On 24 Oct 2000, Jason Rumney wrote:
>
> > "HEDGER, Tim, FM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > We've set up a single software installation of Tomcat, but have
> different
> > > developers running their own Tomcat process by supplying their own
> > > server.xml file with separate directories and ports lists for each
> > > developer.
> >
> > We have a similar setup here, except that each developer has their own
> > machine, so we can use the same server.xml with the same port
> > settings.
> >
> > The key is to get Tomcat to generate all its files in separate areas
> > for each developer. We use the /tmp directory, but if you have
> > separate server.xml files anyway, you could point them to the users'
> > home directory for example. If you are not using Apache with the
> > auto-configuration file, then it really doesn't matter if each
> > instance of Tomcat overwrites tomcat-apache.conf, but if you insist on
> > having the conf directory read-only, then you might be able to point
> > that somewhere else (I don't know how this would be done, as we allow
> > the file to be overwritten).
> >
> > You should also make sure the log files (Logger elements of
> > server.xml) point to different places for each user.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > AT&T Labs (Redditch, UK)
> >
>
