One major advantage of the user-properties file is that its settings (eg location of your page repository, ...) are retained when deploying a new version of jspwiki war.
dirk On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:00 PM Paul Uszak <paul.us...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you convinced that this is the typical use case that you want to > target? The percentage of multiple jspwikis must hover around 1%. Look at > it from the perspective of the mainstream user base. IMHO, this unnecessary > flexibility is actually a major obstacle to installation and usability. > Cutting off your nose... I would suggest dropping all in-jar settings and > go with external configuration files, one for logging (log4j) and one for > jspwiki. Something for v.3? My €1's worth. > > On 31 May 2018 at 04:49, Harry Metske <harry.met...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > if I remember correctly, the most important reason was that it allows you > > to configure multiple jspwiki’s running in the same appserver. > > Since java system properties (-D) are jvm wide you can t do it with that. > > And setting system properties in moat hosted jvms are not allowed. > > > > We could of course add this way of configuring as well, if we want it.... > > > > > > > > Op do 31 mei 2018 om 01:59 schreef Paul Uszak <paul.us...@gmail.com> > > > > > Any reason that this isn't done the traditional way with a -D system > > > property pointing to an external .properties file? That way you'd only > > have > > > one file and be able to see all the configuration parameters should you > > > wish to change some... Large applications (including Tomcat itself) are > > > configured this way. > > > > > > On 30 May 2018 at 21:57, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > That did it! Thanks a lot! > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Harry Metske < > harry.met...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > setting custom properties should be done with the > > > > jspwiki-custom.properties > > > > > file. > > > > > See > > > > > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Documentation#section- > > > > > Documentation-ConfigurationAndAdministration > > > > > > > > > > hope that helps > > > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > > Harry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Op wo 30 mei 2018 om 22:18 schreef Blake McBride < > > blake1...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the help, but I am confused. Tomcat explodes the war > > into > > > > the > > > > > > app directory. It doesn't explode any jar files within a war. > > What > > > > good > > > > > > is it in the jar? How can I edit it? Do I extract it, edit it, > > > re-jar > > > > > > it? Is jspwiki.war a tomcat redy-to-go web app? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > Blake > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Harry Metske < > > > harry.met...@gmail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > the jspwiki properties file is inside the jspwiki.jar which is > in > > > the > > > > > > > jspwiki.war. > > > > > > > So you have to recurse one level deeper :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > Harry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Op wo 30 mei 2018 om 21:33 schreef Blake McBride < > > > > blake1...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The page at > > > > > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Configuration > > > > > > > > states: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "This is simple dump of the *jspwiki.properties *file > contained > > > in > > > > > > > > JSPWiki.war." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I downloaded JSPWiki.war from > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache/jspwiki/2.10.4/ > > > > > > > binaries/webapp/JSPWiki.war > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I then type: jar tvf JSPWiki.war |grep properties > > > > > > > > and it responds: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 100 Sun May 20 20:20:14 CDT 2018 > > > > > > > > META-INF/maven/org.apache.jspwiki/jspwiki-war/pom.properties > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, there is no jspwiki.properties file in JSPWiki.war > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I also tried running .../Install.jsp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Still no jspwiki.properties > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I using the wrong war file? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Blake McBride > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
