Single copy of Tomcat shared amongst multiple users

2005-08-25 Thread Franklin Phan

In RUNNING.txt, a paragraph says:

In many circumstances, it is desirable to have a single copy of a Tomcat 4
binary distribution shared among multiple users on the same server.  To make
this possible, you must configure a CATALINA_BASE environment variable (in
addition to CATALINA_HOME as described above) that points to a directory
that is unique to your instance.

I'm not understanding this.  I've been thinking about having multiple installs of Tomcat 4 on the same server.  I'm now wondering whether what RUNNING.txt suggests can take the place of having 
multiple installs.  But I'm not understanding how just setting a CATALINA_BASE env var can achieve this.  I can only set one CATALINA_BASE env var, right?  What if there are four ...um...not 
instances, but...users who each want their own Tomcat to work with?  How is it possible to have four CATALINA_BASE environment variables?



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Re: Single copy of Tomcat shared amongst multiple users

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Thomas

Franklin Phan wrote:

In RUNNING.txt, a paragraph says:

In many circumstances, it is desirable to have a single copy of a Tomcat 4
binary distribution shared among multiple users on the same server.  To 
make

this possible, you must configure a CATALINA_BASE environment variable (in
addition to CATALINA_HOME as described above) that points to a directory
that is unique to your instance.

I'm not understanding this.  I've been thinking about having multiple 
installs of Tomcat 4 on the same server.  I'm now wondering whether what 
RUNNING.txt suggests can take the place of having multiple installs.  
But I'm not understanding how just setting a CATALINA_BASE env var can 
achieve this.  I can only set one CATALINA_BASE env var, right?  What if 
there are four ...um...not instances, but...users who each want their 
own Tomcat to work with?  How is it possible to have four CATALINA_BASE 
environment variables?


You need to read the rest of the text below the paragraph you quoted. 
In summary,


There is one CATALINA_HOME which all users use for the the following 
directories:

/bin
/common
/server

Each user sets their own CATALINA_BASE that points to their own copy 
of the following directories:

/conf
/logs
/shared
/webapps
/work
/temp

Mark


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