Thanks, Kief. I'm still kind of an Ant newbie, but I think I see what
you're doing, and it's pretty cool. :-)
I'm still confused about the -f option, though. You're not creating
your server.xml in the shared installation directory, are you? I
thought tomcat always used $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml *unless* you
specified another location with the -f option. Please clarify.
With regard to the log files, the default server.xml has those Logger
elements outside the ContextManager element. The docs made me think I
could move them inside the ContextManager element, making the log file
paths relative to its "home" attribute. I suppose I can live with
absolute paths for now, though.
Kief Morris wrote:
>
> 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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