I'm trying to get Tomcat 5.5.16 set up for multiple independent
instances (for use by multiple developers w/out stepping on each others'
toes) in Windows XP (and eventually 2003 Server).
I've got the binaries installed in c:\Apache\Tomcat5, and this is where
the environment variable
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Subject: CATALINA_BASE and multiple instances
I'm trying to get Tomcat 5.5.16 set up for multiple independent
instances (for use by multiple developers w/out stepping on each others'
toes) in Windows XP (and eventually 2003 Server
David Rush wrote:
However, when I tried to install log4j, I had to put the .jar files and
log4j.properties files under CATALINA_HOME/common in order for it to
work. Putting them under CATALINA_BASE/common did not work. Obviously
this is a problem because then multiple instances, which all
Is there a way to get each instance of tomcat to use its own
CATALINA_BASE/common directory?
Yes. Clone the entire installation several times. This has the
advantage that developers can upgrade 'their' instances as they require.
Okay, that looks like it will work for me. I was
and multiple instances
Is there a way to get each instance of tomcat to use its own
CATALINA_BASE/common directory?
Yes. Clone the entire installation several times. This has the
advantage that developers can upgrade 'their' instances as they
require.
Okay, that looks like
No help for Win services from me, but:
you can configure the tomcat classloaders via catalina.properties. Look
for the entries named common.loader etc. There you will find the reason,
why the common loader finds code in CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/*.jar, but
not in the analogous CATALINA_BASE
