Thank Thad!
Any comments from the community for ... 1) What tools is the community using for simultaneous applications deployment on several servers, let’s say more than 20? 4) Is JAVA_OPTS required? ____________ Israel Timoteo > On May 18, 2017, at 6:53 AM, Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Israel Timoteo <itimo...@me.com > <mailto:itimo...@me.com>> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My environment is Tomcat 8.5.12, Java 1.8.0_112 running on macOS 10.12 and >> planning to update Tomcat to 8.5.15. >> >> I’m wondering if I can get comments from the community for my questions >> below? >> >> >> 1) What tools is the community using for simultaneous applications >> deployment on several servers, let’s say more than 20? >> >> 2) Would having the logs located outside of the Tomcat home directory, if >> possible, affect Tomcat operation? >> >> 3) Are there any recommendations/best practices for installing and running >> Tomcat 8.5.15 on macOS 10.12? >> > > On #2 and #3, setup up separate CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE directories > as described in RUNNING.txt. This will keep logs out of CATALINA_HOME and > make upgrading to new releases of Tomcat fairly easy. > > My Macs aren't production, so you may need to adapt this. I unpack Tomcat > releases to /Library/Tomcat. I remove all but ./bin and ./lib, and rename > ./conf to ./conf-ORIG. I diff this ./conf-ORIG with the ./conf-ORIG from > the last release, making tweaks to my $CATALINA_BASE/conf files as > required. Then I create a link > > $ cd /Library/Tomcat > $ tar zxvf ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-8.5.11.tar.gz > ... // remove subdirectories... > $ rm catalina > $ ln -s /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.11 catalina > > and in ~/.bash_profile `export CATALINA_HOME=/Library/Tomcat/catalina` (I > also set CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE in my org.apache.tomcat plist). > Now restart Tomcat. > > >> >> 4) Is JAVA_OPTS required? >> >> >> >> Thanks for your comments. >> >> Israel >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we > are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher > Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)
