if I remember correctly, the most important reason was that it allows you to configure multiple jspwiki’s running in the same appserver. Since java system properties (-D) are jvm wide you can t do it with that. And setting system properties in moat hosted jvms are not allowed.
We could of course add this way of configuring as well, if we want it.... Op do 31 mei 2018 om 01:59 schreef Paul Uszak <paul.us...@gmail.com> > Any reason that this isn't done the traditional way with a -D system > property pointing to an external .properties file? That way you'd only have > one file and be able to see all the configuration parameters should you > wish to change some... Large applications (including Tomcat itself) are > configured this way. > > On 30 May 2018 at 21:57, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That did it! Thanks a lot! > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Harry Metske <harry.met...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > setting custom properties should be done with the > > jspwiki-custom.properties > > > file. > > > See > > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Documentation#section- > > > Documentation-ConfigurationAndAdministration > > > > > > hope that helps > > > > > > regards, > > > Harry > > > > > > > > > Op wo 30 mei 2018 om 22:18 schreef Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > Thanks for the help, but I am confused. Tomcat explodes the war into > > the > > > > app directory. It doesn't explode any jar files within a war. What > > good > > > > is it in the jar? How can I edit it? Do I extract it, edit it, > re-jar > > > > it? Is jspwiki.war a tomcat redy-to-go web app? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Blake > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Harry Metske < > harry.met...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > the jspwiki properties file is inside the jspwiki.jar which is in > the > > > > > jspwiki.war. > > > > > So you have to recurse one level deeper :-) > > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > Harry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Op wo 30 mei 2018 om 21:33 schreef Blake McBride < > > blake1...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > > > The page at > > > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Configuration > > > > > > states: > > > > > > > > > > > > "This is simple dump of the *jspwiki.properties *file contained > in > > > > > > JSPWiki.war." > > > > > > > > > > > > I downloaded JSPWiki.war from > > > > > > > > > > > > http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache/jspwiki/2.10.4/ > > > > > binaries/webapp/JSPWiki.war > > > > > > > > > > > > I then type: jar tvf JSPWiki.war |grep properties > > > > > > and it responds: > > > > > > > > > > > > 100 Sun May 20 20:20:14 CDT 2018 > > > > > > META-INF/maven/org.apache.jspwiki/jspwiki-war/pom.properties > > > > > > > > > > > > So, there is no jspwiki.properties file in JSPWiki.war > > > > > > > > > > > > I also tried running .../Install.jsp > > > > > > > > > > > > Still no jspwiki.properties > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I using the wrong war file? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > Blake McBride > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
