The technique I use is this: Run the HTTP connector on port 8080.
Forward port 80 to port 8080. To re-start the system: edit the server.xml and run the HTTP connector on port 7080 Change the shutdown port to 8006 Start tomcat, and wait till it comes up. Re-run the firewall script to forward port 80 to port 7080. Stop the instance running on port 7080. The downside is that any active sessions get bounced and have to re-login. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: Seth Ladd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:12 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Advice for Hosting Many Individual Webapps? > > Hello, > > We are finding outselves hosting more and more individual > webapps, all > running on Tomcat 5.5.9 w/ JDK 1.5. Each of these webapps is > developed > and deployed on a separate schedule, and the number and > frequency of app > deployments is increasing. > > The frequency is so much that the uptime of all of our > applications is > affected as we continually take down Tomcat servers in production to > deploy a new application (or new version of the application). > Because > hot deploy does not work (the old favorite OOM error w/ too many > redeploys), we bounce the Tomcat server for every redeploy. > > To avoid taking down all of our applications when we need to > redeploy a > single app, we've begun to deploy each application to their > own Tomcat > instance. All of these instances are fronted by a single > Apache server > handling vhosts, logging, etc. > > We're just curious how common this setup really is. We know > we are in > an uncommon position, with so many webapps (approaching 20, > and growing > very fast). We don't want to put all our eggs in one basket, so to > speak, so we've begun to split out individual tomcat instances. > > Anyone else have to handle numerous webapps, with frequent > deploys, and > have to keep uptime for all apps as high as possible? We hesitate to > put all webapps in one tomcat, because to deploy one app > means we have > to take down all of our apps. This is becoming unacceptable. > (not to > mention that a memory leak in one app will bring down all the apps > living in that tomcat instance) > > Any tips or tricks would be really appreciated. Or pointers > to previous > material (I've found some, but nothing that jumped out at me). > > Thanks very much in advance, > Seth > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
