On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 18:11 James H. H. Lampert <jam...@touchtonecorp.com> wrote:
> > And as to vendor-supplied installations, I agree with you. I'm rather > irritated with the "Debianism" of splitting Tomcat up so completely that > webapp contexts can be in at least two different places, and the general > "Linuxism" of *not* including manager and host-manager (although I've > never needed the latter) in the basic installation, and sometimes not > even including a default root. > It's not just a Debian thing - it's a Linux distro idiosyncrasy. And you don't have to use a distro's Tomcat layout / configuration. We don't - we download P.V. Tomcat and extract to /opt (obviously, one could choose to install to /usr/local if building) and use separate CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME.
