David Kerber wrote:
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It turns out that the shared vs lib issue doesn't matter (at least for
my very simple case), and SOME of the config files can be used in both
places, but others cannot. I didn't check all of the files in conf, but
I did check server.xml, context.xml and web.xml, and found that their
contents will work with both server versions (again, at least for my
simple case) . However, when I started looking at some of the other
files in conf, I found major differences between the two versions. So I
copied all the various files from the conf folder under 6.0.24 into the
conf folder in my catalina_base tree, and it immediately started working.
I just want to point out this other thread, and Chuck's last answer in it.
Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file
Basically, if one of your hidden purposes was to investigate whether a
convenient tactic for the migration from 5.5 to 6.0 would be to set up
tomcat 6.0 so that, when tomcat 5.5 is switched off and tomcat 6.0
switched on, things (like your webapps located below catalina_base)
would just "continue working" smoothly, the recommendation is still
"don't".
Even if you have now managed to make this work in your simple test case,
there is no guarantee that somewhere down the line something else might
not bite you.
The basic point made indirectly by the experts, is that tomcat 5.5 and
tomcat 6.0 were not developed in a way to make this kind of
"cooperation" or upgrade possible. They are two independent versions,
and there may be things that look the same, and are in the same place in
both, but are incompatible in some devious way, and would create some
horrible-to-find bug some time later.
However, the same webapps should work under both.
So maybe re-locating your webapps to be somewhere outside of the Tomcat
directory structure (and "pointed to" by both Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat
6.0), is really what you are looking for.
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