Marcos, Once we talked about this on an email thread, and we thought it might be better to have two instances of tomcat each with it's own OpenMRS, the reason being that if you needed to reset one tomcat you wouldn't take down both OPenMRSs. This was in thinking about a production environment.
Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/> Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/> Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Ali Habib <[email protected]>wrote: > Actually you could also unzip the openmrs war file, modify WEB-INF/web.xml > as per option (2) in the link I mentioned, put the xml file back into the > war file. If you're using a graphical software to unzip the war file, this > is usually a simple copy paste process. I've never done this myself but If > you then deploy the modified war, things should start to work on their own. > > Ali > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Ali Habib <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Marcos, >> >> I'm not sure if there is a way to do this before the war file is deployed >> but once you deploy the war and it is unpacked, you can go ahead and make >> changes (2) or (3) listed here: >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Application+Data+Directory >> >> I think you'd then require a Tomcat restart and you'd be good to go. >> >> Ali >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Marcos Núñez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! I've been trying to install two OpenMRS in one tomcat server, >>> running in an Ubuntu server. I have an OpenMRS 1.8.2 deployed >>> in /usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS folder, now I want a 1.8.3 OMRS deployed >>> in /usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS_produ >>> >>> Having red >>> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Multiple+Instances+of+OpenMRS I >>> followed this steps: >>> >>> 1. Download the latest 1.8.3 war >>> 2. Rename it to openmrs_produ.war >>> 3. Deployed it using tomcat's html manager >>> 4. Follow the setup wizzard, creating a new database, a new admin >>> user, etc. >>> >>> >>> My application data directory by default is .OpenMRS, so as expected I >>> found an openmrs_produ-runtime.properties file in >>> /usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS In there, I added the line: >>> >>> application_data_directory=/usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS_produ >>> >>> and created the folder /usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS_produ, assigning it >>> to the tomcat user. I then redeployed the openmrs_produ.war, hoping the >>> wizzard would start again, but when it does I get this error: >>> >>> *The following error occurred at startup:* >>> java.lang.NullPointerException >>> >>> javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException >>> at org.openmrs.web.Listener.startOpenmrs(Listener.java:217) >>> at org.openmrs.web.Listener.contextInitialized(Listener.java:148) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) >>> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:526) >>> at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:525) >>> at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1359) >>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >>> at >>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) >>> at >>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) >>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) >>> at >>> org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:297) >>> at >>> com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:857) >>> at >>> com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:795) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1475) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:250) >>> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) >>> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:558) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) >>> at >>> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) >>> at >>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859) >>> at >>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) >>> at >>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) >>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException >>> at org.openmrs.scheduler.SchedulerUtil.startup(SchedulerUtil.java:40) >>> at org.openmrs.web.Listener.startOpenmrs(Listener.java:212) >>> ... 33 more >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong in here. Is there a way to >>> assign the application data directory before deploying the war file and >>> running the setup wizzard? Would the setup wizzard pick up an >>> openmrs_produ-runtime.properties file with >>> "application_data_directory=/usr/share/tomcat6/.OpenMRS_produ" as sole line? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Marcos >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ali Habib >> Director, Informatics >> Interactive Research and Development >> Ph: +92-21-34327697 >> [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Ali Habib > Director, Informatics > Interactive Research and Development > Ph: +92-21-34327697 > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from > OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. 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