I have to go back and see the directory layout your proposing. I
didn't see a specific proposal in the JIRA so if I'm covering
existing ground my apologies.
How about for purposes of this discussion:
$G == GERONIMO_HOME
We organize servers by default as:
$G/var/servers/geronimo01/config
logs
tmp
and have
$G/var/config
logs
tmp
be a template that can be copied into new servers. This way users
could easily customize their default.
Then, when a server instance is starting if the directory is not
there you fail with a message. Suppose we want to start Geronimo
server geronimo03. The user provides the required parm:
-Dorg.apache.geronimo.server.name=geronimo03 when starting the server.
If the tree doesn't exist we fail with a message like: "Server
instance 'geronimo03' has not been initialized. Please run the
serverInstance.sh script to create a new instance."
The serverInstance.sh script would simply copy the template files
into a new tree like:
$G/var/servers/geronimo03/config
logs
tmp
This way the server operates out of the box in this configuration
with a default name, the server itself does not have to manage the
environment and the user has the usability increased because we have
a script that will set things up. How does this approach sound?
Sounds like we're almost there.
On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:47 PM, Donald Woods wrote:
If I was creating new server instances, I'd like to always start
with a "known" var/config.xml
