Hi - This is the way that Tomcat is. You should think about your configuration. In these days of cheap VMs why are you overloading so many web apps onto a single server? Are you able to create a farm of servers? In other words have two or more? If so then you have a frontend load balancer of some kind managing where requests go. If you do then you should carefully shutdown and restart each server one at a time.
(I started following this type of approach since Tomcat 3.3 on multiple top level domains.) Regards, Dave > On Jul 23, 2018, at 9:57 AM, M. Manna <manme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not sure if it's possible, and probably for a valid reasons. > Server.xml is the mother of server container config and messing things up > there means your servlet context/listeners etc. may need to be > reconfigured. Without a heavily customised/rewritten version of tomcat > config change listener, you cannot do it. > > Also check this - conf/server.xml file cannot be reloaded without > restarting Tomcat. > <https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/context.html#Defining_a_context> > > By all means, confirm this by your research. > > On 23 July 2018 at 17:25, Laurie Miller-Cook < > laurie.miller-c...@larmerbrown.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have an issue where we have multiple virtual hosts in separate base >> directory's on a single Tomcat installation. If I need to change something >> within server.xml I need to restart Tomcat which means I need to do this >> within an outage window as it affects all of the Websites, is there a way >> of reloading the server.xml without restarting Tomcat? >> >> As a bit of background we have a wildcard domain, so >> <clientname>.<Domain>.com so we have created multiple webapp directories >> with their own Manage and have multiple entries in the server.xml file for >> the different hosts. >> >> What need to be able to do is, for example, is add another host to the xml >> site and get that to take effect automatically without the need to >> restarting Tomcat as this restarts all the other websites and hence gives >> outages to our customers. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> All the best >> >> Laurie >>
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