On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Delia, Brett wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a frustrating issue that I see when I try to set up an environment on
> my Windows laptop, where I do development, to match my Linux servers that our
> applications reside. Everything seems to behave the way I would expect with
> the exception of setting the shared.loader property in catalina.properties.
>
> On Linux I can set it up like this:
>
> shared.loader=${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/
> sharedProperties /*.properties,${catalina.home}/
> sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties /*.properties
You don't want to do this. The "shared.loader" property is for configuring the
locations where the class loader will look for something. This should be
either a directory, a JAR file or a URL. In other words, you need to add the
location where the ".properties" file resides, not the full path to the
properties files.
Try this instead...
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/
sharedProperties
>
> But on my Windows laptop that does not work and results in the server
> throwing the following during start up:
>
> SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception
> java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the file specified
> at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
> at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:396)
> at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:559)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:201)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.java:174)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java:98)
> at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:207)
> at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:391)
>
> I can get it working if I explicitly name all of the property files that
> might be in that directory like so:
>
> shared.loader=${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/
> sharedProperties /foo.properties,${catalina.base}/ sharedProperties
> /bar.properties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/
> sharedProperties /foo.properties,${catalina.home}/sharedProperties
> /bar.properties
>
>
> My intent is to not have to do that but to leave it more generic, like we do
> on the Linux servers. This makes it so that each application that has a
> property file that need to be dropped in that shareProperties directory does
> not have to result in updating the Tomcat configuration.
>
> Any insight on why I cannot seem to configure this the same way on Windows
> and Linux would be greatly appreciated. According to the properties file
> itself I should be able to do so.
It's different because the OS's handle file operations differently. Try my
suggestion above, I think that will work on both.
Dan
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