-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Cris,
On 12/15/17 10:36 AM, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote: > I'm thinking about upgrading our tomcat from version 6.x to 8.5.x. > Yeah, it's overdue. :-) In our test environment, I would like to > install 8.5 in parallel with 6 for side-by-side comparison > testing. Sounds reasonable. > Having never done it before, I'm also thinking about splitting the > tomcat and document locations with different values for > CATALINA_HOME home CATALINA_BASE. This is critical for a sane environment IMO. > So each tomcat instance, 6 and 8, would need its own copy of > CATALINA_HOME. Running under Windows Server as a service, > CATALINA_HOME would need to be somehow configured differently for > each service. I assume that can be figured out somehow. Hints are > welcome. ;-) set CATALINA_HOME=...\tomcat6 set CATALINA_BASE=...\app1 CATALINA_HOME/bin/service.bat [args] The service.bat file (and accompanying binary) are sensitive to the standard environment variables. As long as you set-up your Windows service using service.bat and those env vars are set, you are good to go . If you want to change CATALINA_HOME, you may want to actually *remove* the Windows service and re-install it; I'm not sure how well it works to try to "change" the CATALINA_HOME for an existing service. > My question is this. Is it even possible or simply not > recommended for both tomcat instances to share the same > CATALINA_BASE? The work folder with compiled cache is buried in > CATALINA_HOME, not under webapps, right? It also assumes that no > changes need to be made to the application code or web.xml to > accommodate the newer tomcat version. If changes need to be made > for the new version, then the whole issue becomes moot. > > Just in case you're curious why ... I'm a developer. :-) Sharing CATALINA_BASE between major Tomcat versions is not a great idea specifically because of conf/server.xml. That file is very sensitive to changes across versions of Tomcat. Take the <Connector> elements for instance. In Tomcat 6, there is no configuration for SNI, multiple certificates per domain, etc., but that's the best way to configure Tomcat 8.5. So I would recommend a separate CATALINA_BASE for each application's support for a major Tomcat version. Note that you are welcome to share WAR files for an application. Example: Tomcat 6 CATALINA_BASE: bin/setenv.sh conf/server.xml conf/context.xml conf/web.xml conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml [ references C:\apps\myapp.war ] Tomcat 8.5 CATALINA_BASE bin/setenv.sh conf/server.xml conf/context.xml conf/web.xml conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml [ references C:\apps\myapp.war ] In this way, your CATALINA_BASE directory only contains a handful of configuration files (plus the work/ directory, but you let Tomcat worry about that). If you update your WAR file, both services will be updated with your latest code. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQJRBAEBCAA7FiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAloz+J0dHGNocmlzQGNo cmlzdG9waGVyc2NodWx0ei5uZXQACgkQHPApP6U8pFhJYRAAriV8XMoZjcSd08BL sytAXGTXSTTDjTNpumE+l6AhpIsNU1oTTxkbx6qFujNjlBNDmwC7PoJ9gpZlyMDG 70jb5/7kFNaKE3/UqaECBNx2HQpvIU+5UnjF/tgIreEPnDdc34OnHOS7WhoSEq0E CgCh3rzDI3LAeq1B0mLccfnRyl81Bia3itYdO3+4q1XISPB0UAhvMSV1x5/bU4zu W8WHG4jNssLCYUjqmXQv2uEmm0fOraWxSwBhvGr6uy7vGXhrl70ewktTZwx5t7L4 8RDwaEUtX/SId/nX+QhdGLOthmnytc2GZmMAPsQooXTLYVOcTt4aJKsWqxpELwAD JDwg+hs2jTrTbEbfjGuoFXC7XymXtTiP+K7lwn9nFI9nHERKLb57Uj3Pd1IGnZxa 5qrBJnZHW1qF1qcj3VGuUuvH+YGHfguT5v1DDgdPjfrzi/daXS8Z/ote2GVMvslD OVU95F8qlu6GING0K5n9I2yCOlIq7JjNXjNOora3xOyZ6ITpUkC3dzOaEM1DzLS9 6cTnMcj9m/OHk8shRtwviZLaRToBFBqLKbwQv6JsMyE3JyXiCFIiP9r9CjSCOAio zMJSLQ45VwwGyLhxSERw/STunIRK9XPzpa0A38COtiAZKXd3pMiTG9RiTUWGT+t0 g8/4iEE7ndM5jgYRHFznqdsPrfs= =qgzx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
