Don't know much about the BASE property, but all 6 of our devs have
local Tomcats on their machine, and CATALINA_HOME suffices. Ant is used
to push to a staging server. Perhaps your problem is solved by thinking
in a different way?
Allistair.
-Original Message-
From: David Rush
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
It's not *that* unelegant really. You could still manage a centralised
Tomcat if you really wanted to in a source control system for example.
A.
-Original Message-
From: David Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 April 2006 16:36
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: CATALINA_BASE
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
