Re: Help needed with geronimo.sh

[Donald Woods]

So, we have 2 directories that need to be created for every instance -
  /deploy
  /var



Can't we just reorganize the existing layout to be a simpler -
  GHOME/<instances>/template/var/...
  GHOME/<instances>/template/deploy/
  GHOME/<instances>/default/var/...
  GHOME/<instances>/default/deploy/
where <instances> could be a word we all vote on, like "instances" or "servers".








-Donald


Anita Kulshreshtha wrote:

The easiest way to keep users (who will have less working knowledge of Geronimo than us developers) from screwing up their server when trying to use multiple instances, is to put both of those directories under another "instance" directory, including the base template files. That way, we always have a "default" server configured and available for users and the geronimo-maven-plugin to use... Do we need to include the /bin directory in there too, given the geronimo script has JVM options in it and may need to be customized for different instances??? I could also go along with leaving out the <instances> directory, as long as we agreed on placing the "template" files and the "default" instance in well named directories under GHOME....

--- Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have to go back and see the directory layout your proposing. I

iki.apache.org/GMOxDOC20/running-multiple-instances-of-geronimo.html

didn't see a specific proposal in the JIRA

  Some information is here:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC20/running-multiple-instances-of-geronimo.html

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.

Some Background info:
   Currently the following dir/files are used to run an instance:

deploy

    catalina
    config
    derby
    log
    security
    shared
    temp
    txlog
   I like hot deploy directory being outside of the 'var'. All these
directories go under G/foo for an instance named foo. The 'var' created
by build has:


   log
   security
   temp

var - activemq var config

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 issue here is do we make a copy (for running default instance)
during build or ask our _developers_ to get used to this message and
using serverInstance.sh. IIUC, you are saying that create the template
and the default instance during build. And provide a script for
creating additional instances.

Sounds like we're almost there.

  yup..

Thanks
Anita


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