Hi, Have you considered putting this variable in the web.xml? You (should) always have control over your web.xml file, whereas your service provider may not let you mess around with their server.xml file. You can put it in a context-param or an init-param to a startup servlet...
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Chen, Dean (Zhun) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:29 AM >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >Subject: passing environment variables to Tomcat > >Hi, >I'm using Tomcat 4.0.3, we need to pass an environment variable to Tomcat. >In essence, we are trying to define the environment variable, i.e.: DEV, >QA, >PROD, etc. > >Currently, we do this by modifying the catalina.sh and add this to the >runtime command >-Dweb.env="$WEB_ENV" \ > >However, can this be done by modifying the server.xml instead? I don't >believe we will have write access to catalina.sh in the future. > >Thanks, > >Dean > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
