Thanks for the info. I was able to get things to work. I also setup
seperate logs and webapps directories.
Bill
Kitching Simon wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> Tomcat *can* share binaries across multiple running instances.
> However, as I found the docs a bit confusing when I tried to
> get this working, here's how to do it:
>
> create the following directory structure for each instance (eg under
> each user's home directory if you want an instance per user):
>
> somedirname
> + conf
> + server.xml
> + work
>
> Start tomcat with the -f option, specifying the appropriate server.xml:
>
> $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh start -f /somedirname/conf/server.xml
>
> I use a single <context> tag with an absolute docBase
> in the server.xml to indicate where the webapp's files are,
> but I guess you could create a webapps directory as a sibling
> to the "conf" directory to hold webapps. I guess that you can
> also point multiple instances to the same docBase - but
> haven't tried it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Au [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Multiple Tomcat instances on one machine
> >
> > I would like to run multiple Tomcat instances on one machine, each using
> > a different
> > port number. Do I need to have a seperate, full copy ofTOMCAT_HOME for
> > each
> > instance? Or can I just have one common set of binaries with multiple
> > server.xml
> > and other configuration files?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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