Thanks both to you and David Brown for the quick response ! : )
As this was my first posting to this mailing list, and since I don't have
any experience with posting on such lists, I see that I expressed myself a
little bit inexact. But Jeremy's idea of reading the RUNNING.txt is quit
to the point:
"In many circumstances, it is desirable to have a single copy of a Tomcat 4
binary distribution shared among multiple users on the same server. "
This is what I would like to do:
the os is sparc-sun-solaris2.5 on a sun box - i don't know more about it,
I'm sorry..
My plan was to have the administrator
create a group that would have access to a directory on the server where
each user in that group had their own directories which I could set up as
contexts in server.xml
What I would like to know then is where the best place would be to place
Tomcat since the administrator wants control startups and shutdowns.
the next thing the RUNNING.txt says is:
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
what would be a directory that is unique to my instance ?
could the user directory that the administrator creates be that directory?
since
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
Whould this solve my task or have I completely gotten it wrong?
Maybe also what David Brown wrote about adresses what might become a
future problem: the service won't be public with a lot of traffic on it,
but the pages would be openly acessible. Since there have been several
attacks on our different servers, security is a hot issue these days, and
I have a hard time finding out how to solve the problem of having to bug
the administrator each time we need the server reset. It would be great if
there was a solution to this problem.
I am grateful for all help I can get in learning this ! : )
Rolf
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jeremy Joslin wrote:
> Start out by looking at #4 on the list here:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/RUNNING.txt
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> Jeremy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rolf Borgen Guescini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:13 AM
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> > Subject: Mutliuser setup
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> > Does anybody know what to do when setting up tomcat on a UNIX
> environment
> > for more than one user?
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> > Is the best way to define a directory owned by a group where all the
> users
> > belong,and then make contexts in server.xml?
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> > Or is there another way of doing it?
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> > RBG
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