-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chad,
On 5/25/12 3:31 PM, chad.da...@emc.com wrote: > I'm trying to convert my app to use the preferred catalina base > and home deployment. I dunno about /preferred/, but it certainly is flexible. > I understand that this allows for easier migration between tomcat > versions, etc. Absolutely! > As a point of reference, I'm reading about how to do this in > Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. Also, I'm dealing with 5.5.35, if > that matters. CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME have worked (roughly) the same way since at least as far back as Tomcat 4.1. > I have one question. I understand that the separation of the core > tomcat stuff from my instance stuff is good. But the book says to > copy the entire conf folder over to my instance folder ( > CATALINA_BASE/myapp/conf ). Isn't this copying a bunch of tomcat > version specific stuff that I'll have to sift through when it's > time to migrate? Yes and no. First, you *must* have a separate conf/server.xml file otherwise all your instances will conflict with their port numbers, etc. Same thing with conf/tomcat-users.xml -- that would be a security issue to share that configuration. Technically, you can leave catalina.policy, catalina.properties, context.xml, and logging.properties in CATALINA_HOME/conf and Tomcat will pick them up. You'll have to check, but you may be able to leave web.xml out of CATALINA_BASE/conf and Tomcat will pick-up the one from CATALINA_HOME/conf. > Will I be able to just upgrade CATALINA_HOME and not upgrade all of > that copied conf stuff as well? When upgrading between major versions of Tomcat (say, 5.5 -> 7.0 which you should do at your earliest possible convenience), you *will* have to ditch your server.xml. You will also have to replace your conf/web.xml file with the one that comes with the version of Tomcat that you are using. I think everything else left over (assuming you have left out catalina.policy, etc. as I described above) then you should be good to go after a new server.xml has been installed. When I upgrade from one version to the next, I usually just do a diff of my server.xml and the one that is in CATALINA_HOME/conf of the version I'm /leaving/. Then, I get a fresh copy of server.xml from the *new* version of Tomcat, stick it in CATALINA_BASE/conf/ and apply basically the same changes to it. That way, I don't break things like logging, standard Listener configuration, etc. Hope that helps, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+/670ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PD/GgCeLsr3wzQr0UOTUWphWCATwLFY gPgAoI2GZIcAqUR88oVPfJfM9ZvCV33E =x70f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
