Have you read this : http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/RUNNING.txt
<Snip> (4) Advanced Configuration - Multiple Tomcat 4 Instances In many circumstances, it is desireable to have a single copy of a Tomcat 4 binary distribution shared among multiple users on the same server. To make this possible, you must configure a CATALINA_BASE environment variable (in addition to CATALINA_HOME as described above) that points to a directory that is unique to your instance. When you do this, Tomcat 4 will calculate all relative references for files in the following directories based on the value for CATALINA_BASE instead of CATALINA_HOME: * conf - Server configuration files (including server.xml) * logs - Log and output files * webapps - Automatically loaded web applications * work - Temporary working directories for web applications If you do not set CATALINA_BASE to an explicit value, it will be initialized to the same value as is set for CATALINA_HOME (which means that the same directory is used for all relative path resoluations). </Snip> Thomas, -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Bruxelles yahoo-id : smetsthomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lantz Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 February, 2002 1:35 AM Subject: Running Tomcat for Multiple developers > Hi, > > I need to use tomcat for 30 or so students who may or may not be logging > onto more than one system. How do I get multiple instance's of tomcat > with one installation ? I can not give everyone a separte server.xml > file with unique port numbers because I can not figure out how to tell > the startup.sh script where to find a server.xml file in, for example, > everyone's home directory or how that will affect other components of the > application. > > Thanks. > > Lantz Johnson > Unix System Administrator > Santa Clara University > (408) 554-6806 > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
