Mikolaj, Thanks a lot for the code. I had to run through the ant code manually because I downloaded the latest Tomcat 5.5.16, and merged the 1.4.2 compatibility patch. I was unable to get the exe to work, so I wrote a .bat based on your .sh (which I will soon make more generic). How did you create the EXE, by the way? You might be interested to see the Vicaya project. The intent is to run off ANY platform with no installation. It handles some very strange Windows drive configurations, loads the appropriate JRE, etc.
Thanks again, Alex A NON GENERIC batch file is here: mkdir C:\Temp\tomcattemp set tmpfile="C:\Temp\tomcattemp" mkdir C:\Temp\tomcattemp\work set workdir="C:\Temp\tomcattemp\work" set curodir=%cd% set CATALINA_HOME=%curodir%/tomcat5516 set CATALINA_BASE=%curodir%/tomcat5516 set CATALINA_TMPDIR=%workdir% set JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.2_11 call "%CATALINA_HOME%/bin/startup.bat" From: Mikolaj Rydzewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:45:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Tomcat on CDROM (it works!) Vicaya 0.1 Alexander E Genaud wrote: > I am running Tomcat 5.0 from a CDROM. In order for this to work on > different platforms I've tweaked the configurations and create a small > (100 KB) temp space on the user's hard drive for logs, work, java.io, > and tomcat-users.xml. I've precompiled the JSPs and configured Tomcat > to run with a JRE (classpath includes bootstrap.jar only). > I have similiar setup. Our production webapp with hsqldb works well directly from CD. I have slightly modified Tomcat 5.5.12 to accomplish this. You can find the 'magic' ant buildfile here: http://www.ceti.pl/~miki/komputery/tomcat_demo/ -- Mikolaj Rydzewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Becomo S.A. tel. (12) 2927104 From: "Alexander E Genaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:13:45 +0100 Subject: Tomcat on CDROM (it works!) Vicaya 0.1 Hello, I am running Tomcat 5.0 from a CDROM. In order for this to work on different platforms I've tweaked the configurations and create a small (100 KB) temp space on the user's hard drive for logs, work, java.io, and tomcat-users.xml. I've precompiled the JSPs and configured Tomcat to run with a JRE (classpath includes bootstrap.jar only). Whenever I set CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE to different values, Tomcat 5.0 will not start. As long as they are exactly the same, all works well. I presume I am doing something incorrect. None the less, I have gotten around this by creating several CATALINA_HOME's which differ only in "conf/". In each server.xml I hard code the paths to workDir, logs, etc. My start script locates an acceptable temp location and starts the appropriate CATALINE_HOME. For example if I can write to C:\Temp\mytemp, I set CATALINA_HOME to servers/win_nt_c which contains a conf/server.xml pointing to C:\Temp. On the other hand, if I can write to /tmp/mytemp, I set CATALINA_HOME to servers/unix which contains a conf/server.xml pointing to /tmp/mytemp. I also have another called servers/relative which uses relative paths. This hack actually works quite well, albeit resource wasteful: http://sf.net/projects/vicaya But this seems completely backward. Can anyone offer a better suggestion? Also, I have been using Tomcat 5.0 because I am most familiar with it. Does Tomcat 5.5 support Java 1.4.2 well? Some notes seem to imply that Tomcat 5.5 has been designed for Java 5. Might Tomcat 5.5 offer a better solution? Thanks, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
