On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Cox, Charlie wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:46 AM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: context configuration file being overwritten > > > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Milt Epstein wrote: > > > > > Hi there. I'm using tomcat 5.0.18 basically out of the box. I set > > > up a webapp in a directory outside the <tomcat>/webapps directory. > > > So I created a context configuration file for the webapp, and put a > > > symbolic link to it in <tomcat>/conf/Catalina/localhost. This was > > > all per the documentation and the source. > > > > > > So, everything starts up fine, the webapp works, but the context > > > configuration file gets overwritten/truncated (i.e., it is then an > > > empty file). The same thing happens with 5.0.16. This doesn't > > > happen when I place a copy of the actual configuration file in that > > > directory, instead of a symbolic link. (I'm trying to place as > > > little as possible in the tomcat directory structure, to ease > > > upgrade issues and such.) > > Have you tried using CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME to separate > your webapps/configuration(BASE) and your tomcat installation(HOME)? > Maybe this would serve your needs instead of symbolic links. [ ... ]
Thanks for the response. I am aware of using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE, but I don't think that would serve my needs better. That's more for when you're going to have multiple Tomcat instances, and you want to eliminate redundancy and reduce the amount of total space used. And it still has problems when it comes to upgrades. Also, regardless of whether this would serve my needs better, there's the issue of the behavior I'm seeing and whether or not it's a bug. If so, it should be addressed. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
