> From: Leo Donahue - PLANDEVX [mailto:leodona...@mail.maricopa.gov] > Subject: Multiple Tomcat Instances > > As simple as that reads, I don't understand it.
Read the rest of that section of RUNNING.txt as well: "When you use $CATALINA_BASE, Tomcat will calculate all relative references for files in the following directories based on the value of $CATALINA_BASE instead of $CATALINA_HOME: * bin - Only setenv.sh (*nix), setenv.bat (windows) and tomcat-juli.jar * conf - Server configuration files (including server.xml) * logs - Log and output files * webapps - Automatically loaded web applications * work - Temporary working directories for web applications * temp - Directory used by the JVM for temporary files (java.io.tmpdir)" > I don't understand how this is different than a virtual host with > different appBase's. Because in the multiple Tomcat instances scenario, each user gets a separate instance (hence the name), which he or she may start, stop, crash, hang in a loop, or otherwise manipulate without any impact to the other Tomcat instances. When using multiple <Host> elements, everyone is using the *same* Tomcat instance, so when one user messes up, all suffer. > Is it saying that whoever has a user login on the server > can have their own Tomcat playground even though there is > just one Tomcat installed? It has nothing to do with user logins, just the individual CATALINA_BASE settings. If you choose to tie that to a login, fine, but that's not a requirement. You seem to be confusing installation directories with running processes; do you think that because there's only one Notepad installed, you can only run one at a time? > So, if on Windows, you set a User environment variable of > CATALINA_BASE to something like C:\TomcatDevUser1 ... > that's it? No, you have to set up the files under that directory as described in RUNNING.txt. > Tomcat figures out the CATALINA_BASE variable depending > on who is logged in? No, Tomcat uses whatever CATALINA_BASE is active when Tomcat is run via the startup.bat or catalina.bat scripts. Since each user has complete control over his/her environment variables, he or she can set the variable to any value desired. > Does C:\TomcatDevUser1 need a ROOT directory for their default webapp? Yes. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
