I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability..
- how do I let tomcat know that the application is there
(/home/myusername/public_html)?
You don't. If your administration has set this up as a shared
environment, Tomcat should be configured to
use a specific directory for user web applications. For example
<Host name="xxx.xxx.net" appBase="webapps">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig"
directoryName="tomcat_apps"
userClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase"/>
</Host>
This instructs tomcat to look for web applications in
~username/tomcat_apps
- must I ask the admin to place the tapestry jars in shared/lib or can I
used the ones I bundle in WEB-INF/classes/lib?
No, you can bundle them in WEB-INF/lib
- if I bundle my app in a .war file, what's the minimum I must do in
order to deploy the app that way?
Assuming you packaged everything you need to, nothing at all. Plonking
the .war into your application
folder should be enough.
-At which URL will the app be available when it's online?
Depends. From what you are telling me, you do not have a dedicated
tomcat installation so I
assume (always depending on the least effort setup on the part of the
admin) it might be
http://www.app.server:8080/~username/app
- Is web.xml used to let tomcat know where the app is and if so, how?
Yes up to a point but RTFM since this is not the Tomcat List :)
-Do I need to set a class path or other env settings?
You should not need to.
Ask your admin. He/she should be able to provide you with the Tomcat
monitored application path.
If not, email me off list and I'll try to help.
Yiannis.
-----Original Message-----
From: t.n.a. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 April 2005 23:50
To: Tapestry users
Subject: hosting - web application deployment howto?
Hi,
it's time to deploy my first tapestry app and even though I've done some
googling, I ran into a problem I haven't seen on previous instalations
on intranets.
The problem seems to be the environment.
My target environment:
- a remote server
- vanilla tomcat 5.5.7 (no tapestry jars in either shared/lib or
common/lib)
- /home/myusername/public_html/ application folder
- no manager app
- no access to server.xml or the CATALINA_HOME/webapps folder
My development environment:
- my workstation
- tomcat 5.5.7 with tapestry, ognl and jars in CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib
- X:\whatever\appname\ application folder
- manager app
- r/w access to server.xml and CATALINA_HOME/webapps - I'm using
server.xml
My application doesn't have anything in it's context directory: just
WEB-INF and some css: all the .html, .page and the web.xml files are in
WEB-INF. I don't know why this works on my devel machine, but it works.
What I'd like to know is:
- how do I let tomcat know that the application is there
(/home/myusername/public_html)?
- must I ask the admin to place the tapestry jars in shared/lib or can I
used the ones I bundle in WEB-INF/classes/lib?
- if I bundle my app in a .war file, what's the minimum I must do in
order to deploy the app that way?
I don't know where to start with questions, actualy. :( At which URL
will the app be available when it's online? Is web.xml used to let
tomcat know where the app is and if so, how? Do I need to set a class
path or other env settings? Questions, questions, questions...
Thanks in advance,
Tomislav
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