> -----Original Message-----
> From: David kerber [mailto:dcker...@verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:24 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: upgrade from 6.0.10 to 6.0.20 and retain conf and webapps.
>
> George Sexton wrote:
> > The way I do this is by using a CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE
> structure.
> >
> > The tomcat distribution is the CATALINA_HOME directory.
> >
> > You create another directory structure that becomes CATALINA_BASE.
> >
> > In this directory structure, you would create:
> >
> > temp
> > work
> > conf
> > conf/<EngineName>/<HostName>
> > logs
> > webapps
> >
> > I also use a shared/lib directory to hold jar files that I want
> shared across all of my contexts. In 6.0.20 I had to add this to the
> catalina.properties file.
> >
> > Now, Copy the CATALINA_HOME/conf files to CATALINA_BASE/conf and
> modify them as desired.
> >
> > Before you invoke the startup script, you export the variables so the
> startup script sees them.
> >
> > On my system it's something like:
> >
> > CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.20
> > CATALINA_BASE=/srv/tomcat
> >
> > Now, upgrading to a new version is somewhat simpler because you only
> have to change the version # for CATALINA_HOME
> >
> > If you're using log4j, it gets a little sticky because you have to
> put some property files in the common/classes directory and put
> log4j.jar in common/lib (at least in 5.5.27). I think you might be able
> to get around this by doing some edit to the common loader entry in
> catalina.properties, but I haven't had a chance to test it.
> >
> > At any rate, I like this approach because you don't have to worry
> about finding and disabling all sample installations, admin apps, etc.
> If you have to revert to a previous version after making some changes,
> you don't have to worry about finding the edits and migrating them back
> to a previous version.
> >
> > This is also a good solution if you want to have multiple tomcats on
> one machine. You have one CATALINA_HOME directory and as many
> CATALINA_BASE directories as you need.
>
> Don't you mean the other way around? Multiple CATALINA_HOME
> directories, one for each TC installation, and a single CATALINA_BASE
> for the apps?
>
> If not, then your description lost me.
>
> Dave
I meant multiple instances of one version of tomcat. I.E. multiple instances
running apache-tomcat-6.0.20.
George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
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