On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Cox, Charlie wrote: > > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:47 PM [ ... ] > > > 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. > > [ ... ] > > > > Thanks for the response. > > > > I am aware of using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE, but I don't think > > that would serve my needs better. That's more for when you're > > going to have multiple Tomcat instances, and you want to eliminate > > redundancy and reduce the amount of total space used. And it > > still has problems when it comes to upgrades. > > Actually I am using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE for a single > instance for the ease of upgrading. I have separated /webapps, > /conf, and /temp from /bin, /common, /shared, and /server. The only > issue that I see upon upgrade is that I need to copy my libs in > /common and /shared if I install the new version to a new directory > and change CATALINA_HOME appropriately. I'm interested to hear what > other issues you see with this as /conf wouldn't be affected by a > new tomcat point release to CATALINA_HOME. [ ... ]
Well, with the caveats that I don't have extensive experience with different Tomcat setups and I've only just come up with my current setup (so it's kind of a work in progress) ... The setup I'm trying now has: 1. the tomcat distrib under /usr/local (e.g., /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18) 2. /usr/local/tomcat as a symbolic link to the "current" distrib 3. all my webapps, with their associated context configuration files, under /usr/local/webapps So to get things working, all I do is copy the context configuration files to the appropriate Tomcat directory (it used to be <tomcat>/webapps in Tomcat 4, but in 5 it's apparently <tomcat>/conf/<engine>/<host>). (I was hoping to use symbolic links, but then I ran into the problem I posted about.) When I upgrade Tomcat versions, all I do is drop the new distrib in, change the /usr/local/tomcat link, copy the context configuration files in, and voila!, I'm up and running. Maybe the differences are minor as compared to your setup, but I think they are there. For example, you may have to re-copy conf and/or webapps (I believe there can be changes in what's under those directories on new point releases). Basically you don't have to worry about splitting the distrib up between $CATALINA_HOME and $CATALINA_BASE, and any potential issues related to that that could come up with an upgrade to a new version. 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
