Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-26 Thread John Turner
Oops...that should be "Context's docBase". John On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:28:45 -0400, John Turner wrote: That's why the best practice is to set CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME and be done with it. The only time your multiple environments (many operating systems) cause problems is if developers are

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-26 Thread John Turner
That's why the best practice is to set CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME and be done with it. The only time your multiple environments (many operating systems) cause problems is if developers are lazy and hardcode paths into their properties and source code. If you don't hardcode paths, you can refe

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-26 Thread Hayo Schmidt
I have a Folder C:\Programme and a Folder C:\Program Files on my windows system, just because some installers are not programmed correctly.. The point is, i can do what i like with my personal system. But i am working together with colleagues and clients, i might use several systems (FreeBSD, SuSE,

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-25 Thread John Turner
Your comment is incorrect and illogical. Every UNIX or Linux system on and off the planet has the capability to have a directory called /usr/local. Where you put your distribution is up to you. That's the beauty of open source, you can do what you like. If you are using a specific package dis

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-25 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Jason Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:09, Hayo Schmidt wrote: The different locations make it difficult to understand systems other people have set up. And that wastes time. This obviously is a general problem of Linux. It's more a problem of people not documenting stuff. The m

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-25 Thread Jason Bainbridge
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:09, Hayo Schmidt wrote: > The different locations make it difficult to understand systems other > people have set up.  And that wastes time. > > This obviously is a general problem of Linux. I hate statements like that... What about the fact that one of the first options wi

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-25 Thread Hayo Schmidt
The different locations make it difficult to understand systems other people have set up. And that wastes time. This obviously is a general problem of Linux. Hayo John Turner schrieb: I don't think there is an official recommendation. I put anything unrelated to the official OS distribution

RE: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-23 Thread Atreya Basu
I put Tomcat in the same place where Apache likes to go: /usr/local. I don't make symbolic links anywhere because they are a pain to clean up later and I like everything to be in one place. But that may just be because I'm from a Windows background where everything (should go)goes in /Program Fi

Re: Where to place the tomcat distribution in file system

2003-06-23 Thread John Turner
I don't think there is an official recommendation. I put anything unrelated to the official OS distribution under /usr/local, but that's me. John On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:25:14 +0200, Hayo Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil Zanella schrieb: [...] This sets CATALINA_HOME correctly accordin