On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote:
> > From: Wesley Acheson [mailto:wesley.ache...@gmail.com] > > > How many people would be interested in it persisting its > > settings, by editing the appropriate files. > > I would be interested. Note that there's only one file to edit: > conf/server.xml. > Honestly I thought there was more than one going from this http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html > > > Is that in theory possible? > > It's all software... > > > to add the folder structure and the appropiate > > context.xml files. > > That's not necessary - the conf/Catalina/[host]/... files are already > created automatically as webapps are deployed under the new <Host>. Only > conf/server.xml needs to be updated. > > > I've just created a host using the host manager. And deployed a war. I don't see such a file. just the manager.xml > > Would it interfere too badly with tomcat while > > it was running? > > No, Tomcat only reads server.xml during startup. Whatever update mechanism > is used must insure that the file is never in an unparsable state (e.g., > don't update in place, instead create a new file and then rename it). > > Understood for server.xml is the same true of the context files though?
