tomcat base vs. home
Sorry for the basic stuff here guys... I'm a bit under the gun and haven't found the answer in an admittedly cursory search, so I thought I'd ask those who know all (that's you ;-) I've eclipse (3.0) with sysdeo's plugin for tomcat, and tomcat (4.1). In eclipse/window/preferences/tomcat there's a text box for Tomcat home, currently h:\tomcat. Under tomcat, in advanced, there's a text box for Tomcat base, also h:\tomcat. Is Tomcat home the place tomcat looks for its stuff and Tomcat base where it looks for applications? And then where would the HTML/JSP pages go? Why do I ask Now, with my limited understanding of this stuff, there's a directory with the java stuff in it, for the application server, a directory for the HTML and JSP stuff, for the http server, and a directory for the libraries used to actually run the application server. When I'd worked with Visual Age for Java, we had the source code in, for example, C:\project\ etc. and the HTML/JSPs in C:\Program Files\IBM\...\DEFAULT_HOST\ProjectApp\ etc. I'm guessing that VAJ's libraries were also in C:\Program Files\IBM etc. In support of that, we also have Visual Source Safe pointing to the same directories, as it contains the Java/HTML/JSP and conf and prop and etc files. I'd put Eclipse and Tomcat on C:\tomcat, and had to move it to a network drive, H:\tomcat. (because of the zips and McAfee) But, I need to get tomcat to get the Java, HTML and JSPs from the same place that VSS is pointed at, i.e. back at C:\project and C:\program files\ibm\etc. (so as to minimize my straying from the standard ;-) So what do I set to c:\project and what do I set to C;\program files\ibm\ etc.? Thanks Thank you R. Cornell Sternbergh PennDOT/BIS APRASTeam (717) 787-6760 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tomcat base vs. home
From: Sternbergh, Cornell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is Tomcat home the place tomcat looks for its stuff and Tomcat base where it looks for applications? And then where would the HTML/JSP pages go? Not quite. HOME is where the Tomcat binaries live. BASE allows you to set up an alternative structure of conf/logs/temp/webapps/work so that you can host multiple Tomcats from the same set of binaries - I use this to run several Tomcat 5.0.28s. My batch file is as follows: set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\APACHE~2\TOMCAT~1.0 set CATALINA_BASE=c:\cattery\bodington2 cd %CATALINA_HOME%\bin start catalina run Under c:\cattery\bodington2 (one of my Tomcat installations) you'll find conf, logs, temp, webapps and work, with conf/server.xml and so forth. So possibly not quite what you want - there's more there than just the applications. You might want to investigate the appBase attribute in server.xml, however. - Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tomcat base vs. home
I don't know VSS, but using CVS I would do a new checkout to the H: drive, so Tomcat and VSS would use the same location and there is no extra config to do. - Manfred Sternbergh, Cornell wrote: Sorry for the basic stuff here guys... I'm a bit under the gun and haven't found the answer in an admittedly cursory search, so I thought I'd ask those who know all (that's you ;-) I've eclipse (3.0) with sysdeo's plugin for tomcat, and tomcat (4.1). In eclipse/window/preferences/tomcat there's a text box for Tomcat home, currently h:\tomcat. Under tomcat, in advanced, there's a text box for Tomcat base, also h:\tomcat. Is Tomcat home the place tomcat looks for its stuff and Tomcat base where it looks for applications? And then where would the HTML/JSP pages go? Why do I ask Now, with my limited understanding of this stuff, there's a directory with the java stuff in it, for the application server, a directory for the HTML and JSP stuff, for the http server, and a directory for the libraries used to actually run the application server. When I'd worked with Visual Age for Java, we had the source code in, for example, C:\project\ etc. and the HTML/JSPs in C:\Program Files\IBM\...\DEFAULT_HOST\ProjectApp\ etc. I'm guessing that VAJ's libraries were also in C:\Program Files\IBM etc. In support of that, we also have Visual Source Safe pointing to the same directories, as it contains the Java/HTML/JSP and conf and prop and etc files. I'd put Eclipse and Tomcat on C:\tomcat, and had to move it to a network drive, H:\tomcat. (because of the zips and McAfee) But, I need to get tomcat to get the Java, HTML and JSPs from the same place that VSS is pointed at, i.e. back at C:\project and C:\program files\ibm\etc. (so as to minimize my straying from the standard ;-) So what do I set to c:\project and what do I set to C;\program files\ibm\ etc.? Thanks Thank you R. Cornell Sternbergh PennDOT/BIS APRASTeam (717) 787-6760 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
