Let's get the terminology correct. We currently run Tomcat for 2 dozen clients. Each client has their "own" Tomcat. There is only one bin directory (/usr/local/tomcat/bin). There are multiple server.xml files, multiple work directories, and multiple webapp roots. One server.xml, one work directory, and one webapp root per client.
With this configuration, I can stop and start individual "instances" (or whatever word you want to use) of Tomcat at will, without affecting any of the others. All "instances" of Tomcat use the same JVM/JAVA_HOME. Each server.xml = one instance Each instance is manageable by itself without bothering other instances. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Moon [mailto:cmoon@;fas.harvard.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:54 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: When to use two tomcat instances > > > I use multiple Tomcat instances...one for production, > testing, development > and training. I have decided to get with multiple instances > for testing > and development it is nice to be able to test different > versions of the > JDK, which to the best of my knowledge you cannot set in the > server.xml > and it must be set via the $JAVA_HOME enviroment variable. > Please let me > know if this is incorrect because it would be great to not > have to keep > multiple instances. However, there is one other concern that > made up go > with multiple instances. Suppose, you make a change to the server > configuration that requires you to restart the instance. If you are > running one instance with multiple server.xml's and restart > the testing > instance you will also restart the production instance. Again if I am > wrong please let me know. > > Hope this helps > Chris > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Josh G wrote: > > > You don't need two installs, just two server.xml files. I > do it to keep both > > development and test versions of a site which uses the root > context but > > doesn't justify an apache install. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
