Sorry, I did not mean "file" but, rather, "class".
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From: Jan Labanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jan Labanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: RE: Why and How Tomcat before Apache?
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>On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Li, Jerry wrote:
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>> Hi, All:
>>
>> Your help is highly appreciated for the following questions.
>>
>> 1. Does Tomcat have web-based administration functionality?
>>
>> We want to let the Tomcat administrator start/stop Tomcat through a
>> Web-based interface. I have searched the mail archives, and found
somebody
>> starting working on it in April. Is it available now? If yes, where could
I
>> get it?
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>Well, yes... You can stop it via Web, but then can you start it afterwards,
>when the web server goes dead?
>>
>> 2. where is the right location to put properties files
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>> Our application uses a single properties file: system.properties. We have
>> found that we have to put system.properties into WEB-INF/classes,
otherwise,
>> Tomcat could not find it.
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>This is not a bad location for properties file.
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>> We have tried to put it into WEB-INF/lib and put WEB-INF/lib into
tomcat's
>> classpath ( the classpath in tomcat.bat under <tomcat_home>/bin), but
tomcat
>> still could not find it. However, if put it into WEB-INF/classes, tomcat
>> will find it.
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>You need to read about tomcat security manager and classloaders.
>What you put in the CLASSPATH is irrelevant for your application.
>You can put the property file anywhere, and then specify its
>location in the web.xml via context parameter, so the servlet/jsp can
>open it.
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>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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