Hi John,
Give the apache.org tomcat download a go IMO. if you're using centos, then
you're not really bound to RHEL licensing for support.
I just threw that bug report in there because it may be related from some docs
I came across last week.
Unzip apache-tomcat-6.0.xx.zip into /opt and hack the init script vars.
Use this init script if you don't want to tamper what you've already got.
I usually run non-distro java and non-distro apache - just to stay 100%
jdk/container, "just in case" of peculiarities.
This way you can test the apache d/l (current version) vs. redhat's version
without conflicting...
I'm a fairly noob archiva user of 18 months but don't really do anything
substantial with it yet - it just serves up a few poms/jars.
re: continuum, it sounds like you're running through the packt book - true?
#!/bin/bash
#
# tomcat
#
# chkconfig:
# description: Start up the Tomcat servlet engine.
# Source function library.
#. /etc/init.d/functions
RETVAL=$?
CATALINA_HOME="REPLACE_TOMCAT_HOME"
export JAVA_HOME=REPLACE_JAVA_HOME
case "$1" in
start)
if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh ];
then
echo $"Starting Tomcat"
#/bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
fi
;;
stop)
if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh ];
then
echo $"Stopping Tomcat"
#/bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
fi
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
On 09/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, John DeStefano wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Yes: I've hacked the init script and added the env variables there;
> this seems to get Tomcat through enough to start up, but I still see
> Catalina errors regarding the log files. The only way past this seems
> to be editing the files in webapps/archiva/WEB-INF/classes/ after
> Tomcat starts and adding absolute paths there, which means these
> variables still aren't getting through Tomcat to Archiva. I'm seeing
> the same exact problems with another webapp (Continuum), except those
> are a bit worse: on Tomcat start, Continuum creates a directory called
> `${appserver.base}` in $CATALINA_HOME.
>
> Unfortunately, the latest version of Tomcat in RHEL 6.2 available
> through official RH channels is the one I have installed (6.0.24). I
> read the Jira document, and I'm a bit surprised: I read through the
> bug report you'd referenced, which is marked a duplicate of another
> bug, which seems to have been dismissed as an invalid report:
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48903
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ~John
