Hi Tim, Sorry, I forgot to mention I'm running 4.1.29. I didn't see 4.1.30 on the Tomcat downloads page but I do see a 4.1.30-alpha dated 25-Jan-2004 on the downloads site. Also, I need to continue this in Tomcat-4 for now rather than 5.
I'll be moving to production soon so I'm a bit leery of anything with "alpha" in the name. I can try it and put 4.1.29 back if there's a problem. Thanks for the info! --- Bill Faulk -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:08 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Starting tomcat when the DB is down Which version? I thought 4.1.30 was patched to allow tomcat to start up even if the database realm connect failed. -Tim Bill Faulk wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am using SQL Server 2000 via the JDBC realm with forms > authentication. If the database is down when tomcat starts there is an > unhandled LifecycleException generated and tomcat quits. I have the > code in place in my login.jsp to generate a "please try again later" > style message (or whatever other message I choose) if the database > goes down after Tomcat starts. However, I want to avoid a "Cannot find > server" error if the database isn't up. > > If there's a problem with the database I want the alternative to just > having the site be down because Tomcat won't start. Not all of the > site is actually part of the protected content and I want the > unprotected content still available if the DB is down. > > Is there supposed to be any way to allow tomcat to start even with an > unreachable database configured? If this is the expected behavior and > is unavoidable then I guess I'll just live with it. Hopefully it > doesn't happen enough to be an issue. :-) > > Catalina.start: LifecycleException: Exception opening database > connection: > java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for > JDBC]Error establishing socket. > LifecycleException: Exception opening database connection: > java.sql.SQLException: > [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC]Error establishing socket. > at org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm.start(JDBCRealm.java:681) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3 > ... snip ... > Stopping service salesweb > Catalina.stop: LifecycleException: Coyote connector has not been > started > LifecycleException: Coyote connector has not been started > at > org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector.stop(CoyoteConnector.java:1 > ... snip ... > > --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
