Hello all,
I sent this message to the Tomcat users group, and I was wondering if I’d have
any more luck by asking people who might have had this problem:
I’m trying to set up a system where I can deploy a single .war under multiple
context names (using the ant deploy extensions). For example:
ant -Ddeploy-path=/solr-01 deploy
ant -Ddeploy-path=/solr-02 deploy
Both deploy commands use the same .war. However, I’m trying to do something
that I’ve been unable to find a proper method for. solr/home points to a
directory that is packed inside the .war. So, I would like to have a context
fragment that looks like this:
In META-INF/context.xml
<Context>
<Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String"
value="webapps/${context.name}/app-01/solr/" override="true" />
</Context>
Or in WEB-INF/web.xml
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>solr/home</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value> webapps/${context.name}/app-01/solr/</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
As you can see, I’ve used a variable called ${context.name}, so that the
different contexts can use the same fragment, but be named something different.
This allows for a much simpler deployment, where no context.xml needs to be
generated and packaged into the war at deploy time. Unfortunately, as far as I
know, a variable like this does not exist. So my question is this, is there a
way to specify a variable like this relative to the context root? Currently I
am experimenting with adding something to the config that makes solr home
relative to the getServletContext.getRealPath(). Is this my only option?
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
Anthony Arnone
