On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Geoff Soutter wrote:
>
> while we are on a related topic, how about (re) considering this patch?
>
The patch below deals with only one of 33 places that the "catalina.home"
system property is referenced in the Catalina source code -- I think we'd
want to consider them all :-).
In order to support the idea of one install of Tomcat 4 being used for
more than one configuration, we have to decide which subdirectories of
$CATALINA_HOME should be made relative to some new location (specified by
a command line option or a different environment variable). Here's my
proposed breakdown:
All of the following directories would be considered part of the "static"
part of a Tomcat 4 installation, and would remain relative to
$CATALINA_HOME (and thus shared by all uses):
bin/
classes/
common/
classes/
lib/
jasper/
lib/
server/
All of the following directories, unless configured to absolute paths,
would be resolved relative to a new $CATALINA_BASE directory (defaults to
$CATALINA_HOME if not set) that would be used to configure a new
"catalina.base" system property:
conf/
logs/
webapps/
work/
With this arrangement, all of the binaries and Java classes installed in
$CATALINA_HOME would be shared by all uses, but the configuration files,
log files, web applications, and work directories would be unique.
Does that sound like the right breakdown?
> geoff
>
Craig
