$CATALINA_BASE, with the goal of setting up an instance that provides the admin and
manager apps distributed with Tomcat, plus my own applications. At present progress is
slow because I am unsure of how to provide the manager and admin apps in my new
instance.
I started with O'Reilly's Tomcat book (very useful), which on p 56, has a section 'Relocating
the Web Applications Directory' . Unfortunately, the book does not mention that the /shared
directory is also located via $CATALINA_BASE, and does not discuss relocating the admin
and manager apps or why they occupy their own /server/webapps directory, instead of just
residing in /webapps).
Various howto's on non-jakarta, mostly edu, sites have filled the picture in somewhat, but I still
do not know why the /server directory is used to hold the admin and manager apps in the distribution.
Also, the following from the tomcat documentation Introduction is very misleading:
/Throughout the docs, you'll notice there are numerous references to *$CATALINA_HOME*. This represents the root of your Tomcat installation. When we say, "This information can be found in your $CATALINA_HOME/README.txt file" we mean to look at the README.txt file at the root of your Tomcat install./
/These are some of the key tomcat directories, all relative to *$CATALINA_HOME*:/
* /*/bin* - Startup, shutdown, and other scripts. The |*.sh|
files (for Unix systems) are functional duplicates of the
|*.bat| files (for Windows systems). Since the Win32
command-line lacks certain functionality, there are some
additional files in here./
* /*/conf* - Configuration files and related DTDs. The most
important file in here is server.xml. It is the main
configuration file for the container./
* /*/logs* - Log files are here by default./
* /*/webapps* - This is where your webapps go/.In fact, it seems that /conf /logs, and /webapps are actually resolved by tomcat as relative to $CATALINA_BASE,
which is set by tomcat to the value in CATALINA_HOME if it is not explicitly specified when tomcat is launched.
*Questions* ----------
* I have not been able to find a section of the documentation that
deals with setting up usage-specific instances by exploiting
$CATALINA_BASE. Can somebody direct me to the documentation if it
exists?
* Should admin and manager be copied and to and installed in a
special-purpose-instance's /webapps directory, or can they be
safely shared from the distribution by all instances that need them?
* What is the rationale for installing admin and manager under
/server in the distribution ?
* Is /server interpreted relative to $CATALINA_BASE or $CATALINA_HOMEThanks for your attention,
Bill
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