> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > Subject: what exactly does it mean to run multiple tomcat "instances"?
> i can see how multiple users could share a common CATALINA_HOME > directory, whose only common contents would be the bin/ and lib/ > directories. but how would individual users take advantage of that? This has nothing to do with users, but rather with running multiple Tomcat servers on a single machine. For example, you may want to segregate webapps more than you can inside a single JVM, thus avoiding the potential of one misbehaving webapp taking the whole set down. > if i change that server port to, say, 8081, i'm just going to > run into another conflict on port 8009. Yes, each ip-address/port combination must be unique for each instance of Tomcat. This is true for any server-like program, not just Tomcat. > so if i want to run an entirely separate tomcat instance, don't i > have to modify server.xml Yes - each instance must have its own. - 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
