RE: [ANN] Multiple Instances Tomcat Installer
From: Wolfgang Hackl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be serious, I am of the opinion that the Tomcat project can benefit from an application that helps Administrators with installation and management of multiple Tomcat instances (which is a superset of MITI's features). Yes please! We have an extra requirement - we have multiple *developers* running separate Tomcat instances on the same box. We want to ensure that they can run a Tomcat instance from their own filestore, but without the ports colliding. They may not all have root access on the box. Any thoughts as to whether MITI could help with this? - Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ANN] Multiple Instances Tomcat Installer
Peter Crowther wrote: From: Wolfgang Hackl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be serious, I am of the opinion that the Tomcat project can benefit from an application that helps Administrators with installation and management of multiple Tomcat instances (which is a superset of MITI's features). Yes please! We have an extra requirement - we have multiple *developers* running separate Tomcat instances on the same box. We want to ensure that they can run a Tomcat instance from their own filestore, but without the ports colliding. They may not all have root access on the box. Any thoughts as to whether MITI could help with this? Hi Peter! As a workaround you might add all developers to the same group or tune the chmod/chown/chgrp statements in the script. Please consider the TOMCAT_USER variable in the Tomcat5.sh script, too. Root access is not necessary as long as you can do without a start script and links in /etc/init.d. The start script gets generated to $CATALINA_BASE anyway and hopefully can be started with developers' privileges from there. Wolfgang - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ANN] Multiple Instances Tomcat Installer
Hi everybody! I created a shell script for helping with the installation of multiple Tomcat instances. You may want to use it if you need to accelerate the creation of a new service. The script is called MITI - Multiple Instances Tomcat Installer. MITI performs actions analogous to the Advanced Configuration section in http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/RUNNING.txt. In addtion to that, MITI keeps track of the services' Ports for HTTP, JK2 and Shutdown. MITI automates the adaption of each server.xml since it updates these ports in server.xml with sed according to a ports database (flat file). MITI can be downloaded at http://miti.sourceforge.net/. One reason for me launching this project was that I want my effort to be useful for the public. Another reason is that I haven't found installation scripts for the UNIX-like platforms. In opposition to that, there is an installation wizard for the Windows platform and I don't like *NIX/BSD to be discriminated ;-) To be serious, I am of the opinion that the Tomcat project can benefit from an application that helps Administrators with installation and management of multiple Tomcat instances (which is a superset of MITI's features). Once I even tried to write a Java GUI to manage server.xml properties but put that software aside for various reasons. Would you consider an app like this useful? Any comments, hints and suggestions are welcome. Kind regards, Wolfgang - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
