RE: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread jonmcalexander
Hey Michael, I too would like to know more of what Chris is sa­ying in regards to the conf folder. Thanks, Sent with BlackBerry Work (www.blackberry.com) From: Michael B Allen Sent: Nov 15, 2021 4:24 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to *properly*

Re: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
The Gentoo Linux packaging of Tomcat does a nice job of laying out separate CATALINA_HOME and one or more CATALINA_BASE trees, if you'd like something to study. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street

Re: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
Michael, On 11/15/21 17:23, Michael B Allen wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 4:31 PM Christopher Schultz wrote: conf All of the conf files. Specifically, you'll want server.xml and web.xml. You can also choose to customize context.xml, and put any [engine]/[host]/[webapp].xml deployment

Re: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
Jon, On 11/16/21 08:55, jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com.INVALID wrote: I too would like to know more of what Chris is sa­ying in regards to the conf folder. You mean conf/[engine]/[host]/[webapp].xml? This is just "standard" deployment descriptor stuff:

RE: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread jonmcalexander
I meant the other configuration files. I guess I haven't dug deep enough, but DOES Tomcat handle the catalina.properties, catalina.policy, logging.properties, etc. files hierarchically similar to how Microsoft handles web.config files? CATALINA_HOME being the parent and Instances automatically

Re: How to Upgrade Tomcat

2021-11-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
Rakesh, First: please don't hijack threads (you replied to a thread called "How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation") Second: it's ironic that you replied to this particular thread, because one of my recommendations is to always run with CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE

Re: How to *properly* create and use a CATALINA_BASE installation

2021-11-16 Thread Michael B Allen
> https://people.apache.org/~schultz/presentations/ApacheCon%20NA%202020/Splitting%20Your%20Tomcat%20Installation.pdf Thanks. That's what I'm looking for. Slightly related: Instead of setting environment variables in your profile and running $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh, is there any reason why