configuring tomcat for 100+ contexts
G'day all: How do I tell tomcat that everything under a WEB-INF is a tomcat context? (A colleague said he saw it in the docs somewhere, but neither of us can find it again and I've had no success in my archive and web searches) I've got 3 courses of 100 students, some of which want to use JSP and servlets. For the last installation (tomcat3), I added in a context for each interested student in the servlet.xml. I would _like_ to be able to say for every directory that you find a WEB-INF, such as /var/www/htdocs/$course/$student/WEB-INF Would Context path= docBase=/var/www/htdocs/*/* appBase=/var/www/htdocs/ reloadable=true debug=0/ make any sense? System: tomcat-4.0.3, Solaris 8, apache_1.3.22 is handling static content Any hints most thoroughly welcome, --- Boyd Duffee,Keele University Computer Science (01782) 583437 Computing Officer ...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou. Now I have this image in my mind of a fish embracing and extending a caribou. -- Paul Tomblin and Christian Bauernfeind in the SDM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: configuring tomcat for 100+ contexts
student in the servlet.xml. I would _like_ to be able to say for every directory that you find a WEB-INF, such as /var/www/htdocs/$course/$student/WEB-INF Would Context path= docBase=/var/www/htdocs/*/* appBase=/var/www/htdocs/ reloadable=true debug=0/ make any sense? I suggest a small perl script that produces the apps-X.xml files in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf . You could create/delete your students and courses and just run it to get the newest working config without touching server.xml. It can clone the webapps directory of each a.o.a.o.a.o :) Just the restarting would take a while :-)) M.Schwarz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: configuring tomcat for 100+ contexts
student in the servlet.xml. I would _like_ to be able to say for every directory that you find a WEB-INF, such as /var/www/htdocs/$course/$student/WEB-INF Would Context path= docBase=/var/www/htdocs/*/* appBase=/var/www/htdocs/ reloadable=true debug=0/ make any sense? I suggest a small perl script that produces the apps-X.xml files in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf . You could create/delete your students and courses and just run it to get the newest working config without touching server.xml. It can clone the webapps directory of each a.o.a.o.a.o :) Just the restarting would take a while :-)) I was sort of doing that the last time because adding in one person at a time (they never make it easy for you) started getting tedious. I could care less about start up times (they're only users, after all ;) Oh yes, I'm also using mod_webapp, if that makes a difference. I was hoping for an eloquent solution that would recognize that all WEB-INF directories beneath htdocs are a tomcat context. danke, --- Boyd Duffee,Keele University Computer Science (01782) 583437 Computing Officer ...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou. Now I have this image in my mind of a fish embracing and extending a caribou. -- Paul Tomblin and Christian Bauernfeind in the SDM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: configuring tomcat for 100+ contexts
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, B. Duffee wrote: Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:59:48 +0100 (BST) From: B. Duffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED], B. Duffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: configuring tomcat for 100+ contexts student in the servlet.xml. I would _like_ to be able to say for every directory that you find a WEB-INF, such as /var/www/htdocs/$course/$student/WEB-INF Would Context path= docBase=/var/www/htdocs/*/* appBase=/var/www/htdocs/ reloadable=true debug=0/ make any sense? I suggest a small perl script that produces the apps-X.xml files in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf . You could create/delete your students and courses and just run it to get the newest working config without touching server.xml. It can clone the webapps directory of each a.o.a.o.a.o :) Just the restarting would take a while :-)) I was sort of doing that the last time because adding in one person at a time (they never make it easy for you) started getting tedious. I could care less about start up times (they're only users, after all ;) Oh yes, I'm also using mod_webapp, if that makes a difference. I was hoping for an eloquent solution that would recognize that all WEB-INF directories beneath htdocs are a tomcat context. Another approach to consider for this kind of use is the User Home Directories capability (requires Tomcat 4). This makes a URL like http://www.myhost.com:8080/~craigmcc/; refer to the public_html subdirectory of my user home directory (just like the similar feature in Apache and other web servers). At startup time, all the users who have public_html directories accessible to the username Tomcat runs under will be automatically recognized. Documentation is on the Host page in the server configuration reference (http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/config/host.html). danke, Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
