Jim Crossley typed the following on 09:23 AM 2/6/2001 -0500
>Along those same lines, what's the recommended approach for sharing one
>installation of tomcat with multiple users?
>Should they each create their own server.xml and set the "home"
>attribute of the ContextManager to a location beneath their home
>directory, specifying the -f option to bin/startup.sh?
I do this, except for the -f option. I actually use Ant to create my server.xml files,
here is my template:
<ContextManager
debug="0"
workDir="@jsp-dir@"
showDebugInfo="true"
home="@site-home@">
Replace @site-home@ with the subdirectory in your user's home area.
Replace @jsp-dir@ with @site-home@/work.
>What should the directory structure of that location be? Any more than
>"conf", "webapps", "logs"?
You a place for the server to write log files and such, the workDir
in the above snippet. $SITE_HOME/work is good.
>Should each user's TOMCAT_HOME refer to the shared installation
>directory or their private workspace?
The shared installation. This tells Tomcat where to find everything except
those things you specifically override, which leads to the next issue ...
>I tried answering "yes" to most of the above, and never could get the
>log files to show up.
Tomcat was probably trying to write them in $TOMCAT_HOME/logs.
You must specifically override this default in the Logger elements of
server.xml:
<Logger name="tc_log"
verbosityLevel = "DEBUG"
path="@log-dir@/tc.log"
/>
<Logger name="servlet_log"
verbosityLevel = "DEBUG"
path="@log-dir@/servlet.log"
/>
<Logger name="JASPER_LOG"
verbosityLevel = "DEBUG"
path="@log-dir@/jasper.log"
You'll need to replace @log-dir@ with the full path to the subdirectory in
the user's home area.
>And I was surprised that the necessary
>directories (conf, logs, etc) weren't automatically created in the
>ContextManager's home.
No, you'll have to create the directories yourself during the installation. When
Tomcat runs it assumes everything is already configured properly. You'll probably
need to make a few shell scripts or Ant build files to automate creation
of Tomcat sites for your users.
Kief
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