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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
