Rainer Frey wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2009 17:08:15 Mike Frohme wrote: > >>>>>> Edit the copy of the context.xml file and all will work as you >>>>>> expect. >>>> 1. In production, the operations folks don't have to unpack the app, >>>> edit the context file and re-pack the app to edit the configuration. >>>> >>>> 2. When a new version of the app is installed, the environment specific >>>> configuration isn't lost. >>>> >>>> If you want to remove the old configuration, undeploy the app first >>>> which will remove the old configuration file. >>> A an aside, wouldn't it be nice if it were configurable whether tomcat >>> copies the context.xml to $CATALINA_BASE/conf? Then administrators could >>> decide to never have local configuration and always rely on the config >>> within the war? >> Sorry for the late reply, Rainer. >> >> There is, in principle. Set deployXML to false in the Host declaration in >> your server.xml and it will do exactly what you want. On the flip side, >> tomcat will remove the configuration when the app is undeployed, so you >> need a little care in your deployment process. > > Thanks for the response. Actually, doesn't this do the exact oposite of what > I > want? > > What I want (as option): "I know that developer/packager did it right and I > never want to have local configuration. Always use the context.xml within the > currently deployed application, updated every time I redeploy the app." > > deployXML=false seems to do: "Never trust the developer, don't even copy > their > context configuration to local configuration if there is no local one yet. > Only use a configuration I manually put on the server". > > Could anyone please comment whether I understand that right?
You do. In which case, undeploy your application before you deploy the new version and Tomcat will remove the copied context.xml as part of the undeployment. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
