-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Conway,
On 2/3/2011 2:10 AM, Conway Liu wrote: > Tomcat service is installed [in]: > C:\Tomcat\ > My Java web application is placed in: > C:\WebApp1\ > > With subfolders: > C:\WebApp1\bin\... (contains tomcat5.exe and tomcat5w.exe and many .sh and > .bat files as we previously start this site using the startup.bat before I > installed the Tomcat service) > C:\WebApp1\common\... > C:\WebApp1\conf\... (contains catalina.policy, catalina.properties, > context.xml, logging.properties, server.xml, server-minimal.xml, > tomcat-users.xml, web.xml specifically used by this website) > C:\WebApp1\conf\Catalina\ > C:\WebApp1\logs\ > C:\WebApp1\server\ > C:\WebApp1\server\lib\... (many .jar files in there, e.g. catalina.jar) > C:\WebApp1\shared\... > C:\WebApp1\sslcerts\... (SSL certificates in here) > C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT\... (This is the root of the website. E.g. > default.jsp > sits in here) > C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\... (The java classes we created to > be > used for the website to interact with back-end database) > C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\... (some 3rd party .jar files > specifically used by this website) > C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml (contains the listener definition, > points to the listener class, so that when this site starts the listener > class > can perform some initialisation tasks) > C:\WebApp1\work This looks more like a whole Tomcat instance than just your webapp. Are you expecting to use CATALINA_BASE to launch Tomcat from a shared installation but in a multi-instance (even if "multi" only means "one") environment? > Question: > 1. How should I configure Tomcat service so that it serves the WebApp1 > website? > Which file in which folder to modify? If the "website" is found in C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT then you should only have to do one of the following: C:\> C:\WebApp1\bin\startup.bat or C:\> SET CATALINA_BASE=C:\WebApp1 C:\> C:\Tomcat\bin\startup.bat One of these should launch Tomcat and should not require any editing of any configuration files from the stock install unless you want to change your <Connector> to listed on a port other than 8080 for HTTP requests. > 2. When Tomcat starts WebApp1 website, which set of configuration files is it > using? (Those in C:\tomcat\conf\ or those in C:\WebApp1\conf\?) That depends on how you start Tomcat. If you start Tomcat by setting CATALINA_BASE=C:\WebApp1 and then running C:\Tomcat\bin\startup.bat, then you'll get C:\WebApp1 started. If you run the same command without setting CATALINA_BASE, you'll get C:\Tomcat started. If you run C:\WebApp1\bin\startup.bat (because C:\Tomcat and C:\WebApp1 are essentially the same as you've described them), then you'll run C:\WebApp1. Your set up looks like it's more complicated than it needs to be. Might I recommend the following: 1. Move your webapp temporarily from C:\WebApp1\webapps\ROOT somewhere else 2. Completely remove C:\WebApp1 3. Create a new directory, C:\WebApp1 4. Re-read the "Advanced Configuration - Multiple Tomcat Instances" section of C:\Tomcat\RUNNING.txt, using C:\WebApp1 as CATALINA_BASE 5. Move your webapp back into C:\WebApp1\webapps Always start Tomcat like this: C:\> SET CATALINA_BASE=C:\WebApp1 C:\> C:\Tomcat\bin\startup.bat Of, if you want to use Tomcat as a service (like most people on Microsoft Windows want to do), then make sure that you set the catalina.base property appropriately via the service installer interface. > 3. If I am to add another website to the same server, say C:\WebApp2, with > exact > folder structure as WebApp1, how should I configure Tomcat service so that it > serves both WebApp1 and WebApp2? If you want to serve two webapps from the same Tomcat install, then just drop the second website into a subdirectory of C:\WebApp1\webapps. If you want it to be the ROOT webapp of a different hostname, you'll have to create multiple <Host> entries in server.xml, each with a different "webapps" folder and put one ROOT in each one. > 4. The two sites will use different IP addresses. For example WebApp1 is > 43.88.12.123, and WebApp2 is 43.88.12.133. How do I tell Tomcat which IP > belongs > to which website? The <Connector> element takes an "address" attribute which can bind to a specific IP. If you really only want a one-to-one mapping between IP addresses and webapps, you'll have to create two separate <Service> configurations, each with a <Connector> and <Host>. If you don't mind serving the same content to all IP addresses, it's generally much easier to have a single <Connector>, a single default <Host>, and multiple webapps deployed into it. You can probably do this (eventually) with IIS, but I know for a fact that you can mangle URL spaces with Apache httpd's mod_proxy so you can take a webapp deployed into Tomcat at http://host:8080/webapp1 and serve it from httpd as http://webapp1.host.com/ while http://webapp2.host.com/ goes to http://host:8080/webapp2. If you give me a little more information about your actual requirements, I can tell you which of the above is most appropriate (IMO). Hope that helps, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1LFOcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBBOACcDdm5faSWXEoPPe0EO7KoBQI6 pwwAoLp2mk9QOKXvOFjgyB+vmfaZd40/ =Ybf8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
