Marco, here's how I do it (I'm on a windows dev machine):
1.> Place all documentation and example .war files in
C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1\webapps\ Mine contains the following applications:
examples
standard-doc (JSTL documentation)
standard-exmplas (JSTL examples)
struts-documentation
strutsel-exercise-taglib (Struts Exression Language examples)
tomcat-docs
I put only those apps that I do not modify and that will *always* be
deployed here in the traditional spot. I use these example and documentation
apps a lot thus they reside here.
1.> move all in development webapps (my webapps) from
C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1\webapps\ to C:\webapps\ In this directory I have
about seven webbaps. Not each one is currently in development and some are
done and thus rarely used and therefore do not need to be deployed every
time tomcat starts up.
2.> define context entries in server.xml for each webapp that will *always*
be deployed, such as:
<Context path="/foo" docBase="C:\webapps\foo\ debug="0" />
These are the apps that are currently in development by myself.
3.> load all as-needed webapps using the manager app with a command like:
http://localhost/manager/install?path=/bar&war=file:/C:\webapps\bar
These are the apps that I develop only once in a blue moon and/or need to
reference once in a while.
If any of that's not clear let me know. This system works great for me. One
other thing: I actually have the following structure for each app at
C:\webapps\<appName>\
backup\
docs\
logs\
metrics\
preproduction\
src\
unused\
web\
web\WEB-INF
So my server.xml entry actually looks like this: <Context path="/foo"
docBase="C:\webapps\foo\web" debug="0" />
You can also place the work directory here as well but I don't.
Hope that helps.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Bucciarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to avoid load af a context at startup of Tomcat
Is there a way to tell Tomcat (Tomcat 4.1.18, RedHat Linux 7.0) not to load
a context when it starts up?
I would like to start only some of the applications that I have under my
webapps directory, and to start the others manually with the manager
application only if I really need them. Unfortunately I can not configure
two different servers to manage separately those applications.
All the webapps have an entry as a context in my server.xml file.
I could not find anything in the documentation.
Thanks,
Marco.
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