> -----Original Message----- > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:46 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: context configuration file being overwritten > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Milt Epstein wrote: > > > Hi there. I'm using tomcat 5.0.18 basically out of the box. I set > > up a webapp in a directory outside the <tomcat>/webapps directory. > > So I created a context configuration file for the webapp, and put a > > symbolic link to it in <tomcat>/conf/Catalina/localhost. This was > > all per the documentation and the source. > > > > So, everything starts up fine, the webapp works, but the context > > configuration file gets overwritten/truncated (i.e., it is then an > > empty file). The same thing happens with 5.0.16. This doesn't > > happen when I place a copy of the actual configuration file in that > > directory, instead of a symbolic link. (I'm trying to place as > > little as possible in the tomcat directory structure, to ease > > upgrade issues and such.) > >
Have you tried using CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME to separate your webapps/configuration(BASE) and your tomcat installation(HOME)? Maybe this would serve your needs instead of symbolic links. Charlie > > Any idea what's going on here? I searched all over and couldn't > > find any discussion of a similar issue. > > > > FWIW, my system is Linux (Fedora Core 1). > > > > Thanks! > > Hate to repost this unchanged, but I'm surprised this hasn't gotten > any response. Any Tomcat developers on the list? Am I missing > something about how context configurations files are supposed to work? > Because otherwise this looks like a bug. > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
