Thank you Chuck, you've been most helpful. Regards,
James On 8 March 2010 19:41, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: >> From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] >> Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML >> file (Tomcat 6.0.20) >> >> is using a separate Context XML file the best way of providing >> server-specific configuration to a tomcat web application? > > I think so, since otherwise the server administrator has to take the .war > file apart, update context.xml or web.xml, and pack it all back together. > Specific values can also be specified by system properties on the command > line, and referenced in the webapp's context.xml, but that has its own issues > with uniqueness and remembering to set the values when needed. > >> Not using the standard webapps folder directly seems like bit >> of a work-around. > > It's the way I prefer to run the production apps, as opposed to the examples, > docs, manager, etc., that come with Tomcat. (We keep the examples and docs > deployed just to give people something to play with - there's no outside > access to the system.) Having the production apps outside of the Tomcat > directory structure makes it easy to update Tomcat versions when needed - and > we do keep up with each release. > > - 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. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
