I can't speak from experience under Windows, but on Unix system we typically have the following layout for a separate CATALINA_HOME:
$CATALINA_HOME |-- conf/ | |-- Catalina | | `-- localhost | | |-- context.xml.default | | |-- manager.xml | | `-- admin.xml | |-- server.xml | `-- web.xml |-- etc/ | `-- environment.sh |-- logs/ | |-- PID | |-- catalina.log | `-- stdout.log |-- shared/ | |-- classes/ | `-- lib/ |-- start |-- stop |-- temp/ |-- webapps/ | |-- appname/ | |-- META-INF | | `-- MANIFEST.MF | |-- WEB-INF | | |-- classes | | |-- lib | | `-- logs | |-- html | |-- index.jsp | `-- jsp/ | `-- *.jsp `-- work `-- Catalina/ Hope that helps! All of these things may not apply to your setup and we've added many things. war files won't require you to have the appname/ dir since they will autodeploy. Byron -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth B. Harwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:31 PM To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: CATALINA_BASE i'm running the latest tomcat (5.5.9) on Win2K Pro. Tomcat works in the default configuration. thanks. i'm trying to get Tomcat working using CATALINA_BASE. that is, i want a second Tomcat instance to serve my webapps from a directory different than the default. the "default" directory is (F:\tomcat 5.5\webapps\myapp). the "secondary" is (G:\tomcatuser\webapps\myapp). CATALINA_HOME=F:\tomcat 5.5 CATALINA_BASE=G:\tomcatuser the [G:] directory structure and user files looks to be perfectly in order. for example, G:\tomcatuser [conf] [webapps] [log] {server.xml} [myapp] {context.xml} *.jsp Tomcat seems to ignore my "second" configuation. that is, when i start tomcat it keeps trying to fetch my web pages from the [F:] disk's directory. fyi, i have apache2 httpd in front of Tomcat, using the AJP/1.3 protocol. no problems with the connection! if i can get the apache web server talking to Tomcat, then this CATALINE_BASE thing should not be too difficult to set-up. what the heck am i doing wrong? other information: 1) i do NOT really need multiple instances running. i just want to keep my Tomcat executables on drive [F:] and my development stuff on drive [G:]. so, i haven't tested the system with >1 instance running. 2 i already know about 'appBase'. what i want is for my Tomcat development instance to start-up thanks. - ken harwood --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]