Hi Tom, I'm afraid the message you replied to contains the entirety of my knowledge on this subject.
I think the most important thing for this setup is to make sure there are no auto-deployed webapps, so the appBase for all servers should be an empty directory. I've had problems in the past when Tomcat has started two copies of a webapp, one declared in XML files and the other copy because it found something in the appBase. I've resigned from the list for the time being, as I don't have the time to read that many emails, but if you have any specific questions please let me know. Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2006 17:21 To: Tomcat Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5 Context Files Chris, I have been looking for the same solution. Can you share what you had learn? Would you able to put together a howto on this topic? I think it will be a great benefit to the rest of us. Thanks much, Tom ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:57:18 +0100 (BST) >From: Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5 Context Files >To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > >After following up the advice from David and others, I >think I've got the configuration I need. I'm posting >a minimal version of the setup as it seems to me that >this might be a fairly common requirement: > >- I'm running two applications on a single server; >each has its own domain name. > >- Within each application there may be one or more >contexts, corresponding to different versions of the >webapp (used by different customers). > >- Various site-specific parameters need to be set >within the context, where they will override values in >web.xml. > >- I don't want any kind of auto deployment > >server.xml >---------- ><Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> > > <Service name="Catalina"> > <Connector port="8080" /> > > <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="host1"> > > <!-- it seems that if both autoDeploy and >deployOnStartup are false, the host returns empty >pages, but if either one is false then it's OK --> > <Host name="host1" appBase="noapps" >autoDeploy="false" unpackWARs="false" >deployXML="false" /> > <Host name="host2" appBase="noapps" >autoDeploy="false" unpackWARs="false" >deployXML="false" /> > > </Engine> > > </Service> ></Server> > >directory structure >------------------- >{catalina_home} > conf > Catalina > host1 > ROOT.xml: <Context >docBase="${catalina.home}/ibo/ibo3" /> > ibo4.xml: <Context >docBase="${catalina.home}/ibo/ibo4" /> > ... > host2 > ROOT.xml: <Context >docBase="${catalina.home}/cbo/cbo.1.23.45" /> > ... > noapps > [nothing in here - would appBase="dev/null" work?] > ibo > ibo3 > WEB-INF > ibo4 > WEB-INF > cbo > cbo.1.23.45 > WEB-INF > >I seem to have problems if the context directories >aren't below ${catalina.home}, but this I can live >with. > >Thanks to all who helped. > >Chris >--- David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Some thoughts: >> >> 1. The naming of all the associated files with your >> webapp should be >> consistent with the path attribute of the context >> element (assuming ibo4 >> is it's name): >> Context xml file should be named ibo4.xml >> The webapp's directory should be named ibo4 >> If deploying from a .war file, the .war file >> should be named ibo4.war. >> >> 2. The name of the root application is ROOT (case >> sensitive), so if this >> is to be the webapp to respond on request to /*, the >> war file, context >> xml file, and the webapp's folder should all be >> named ROOT (ROOT.xml, >> ROOT.war, webapps/ROOT). >> >> It should also be noted that with the context xml >> file in >> config/Catalina/www.iboserver.com/ibo4.xml, the path >> and docbase >> attributes may be ignored under tomcat 5.5. Open >> your manager webapp to >> see what's deployed and under what names. >> >> --David >> >> Chris Walker wrote: >> >> >Thanks Mark. I noticed that, but my objective is >> to >> >store configuration parameters that are >> >platform-specific outside the webapp. The stuff in >> >the server's context definitions nicely overrides >> >anything in web.xml. >> > >> >Chris >> > >> >--- Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> >>Hi. >> >> >> >>Context fragments can also be put in your webapp's >> >>META-INF directory, per >> >>the 4th bullet item here >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html >> > >> > >> >>E.g., >> >> >> >>pluto:PGCRM> jar tf dist/crmrpc.war |head -3 >> >>META-INF/ >> >>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF >> >>META-INF/context.xml >> >> >> >>where context.xml contains, in my particular case, >> a >> >>JDBC resource >> >>definition >> >> >> >><Context path="/crmrpc" debug="5" >> reloadable="true" >> >>crossContext="true"> >> >> <Resource >> >> name="jdbc/crm" >> >> auth="Container" >> >> type="javax.sql.DataSource" >> >> maxActive="100" >> >> maxIdle="30" >> >> maxWait="10000" >> >> username="u" >> >> password="p" >> >> driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cm?autoReconnect=true" >> > >> > >> >> /> >> >></Context> >> >> >> >> >> >>On 5/29/06, Chris Walker >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>Hello, >> >>> >> >>>I have just migrated a family of webapps from >> >>> >> >>> >> >>Tomcat 4 to Tomcat 5.5 >> >> >> >> >> >>>. It's >> >>>working OK, but reading through the documentation >> >>> >> >>> >> >>I see there is a >> >> >> >> >> >>>recommendation that I remove the <Context> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>sections from server.xml and >> >> >> >> >> >>>put >> >>>them in files in >> >>> >> >>> >> >>{catalina_root}/conf/[engine]/[Host]. >> >> >> >> >> >>>But when I do this I find that each of the >> >>> >> >>> >> >>contexts just responds with an >> >> >> >> >> >>>empty HTML page - no HTTP error, and nothing in >> >>> >> >>> >> >>any of the Tomcat logs to >> >> >> >> >> >>>suggest an error. This is the response: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> > >> > >> >>>--- >> >>><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 >> >>> >> >>> >> >>Transitional//EN"> >> >> >> >> >> >>><HTML><HEAD> >> >>><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; >> >>>charset=windows-1252"></HEAD> >> >>><BODY></BODY></HTML> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> > >> > >> >>>--- >> >>> >> >>>I've tried various names for the context XML >> >>> >> >>> >> >>files, and I've tried >> >> >> >> >> >>>specifying an absolute path for the context >> >>> >> >>> >> >>docBase, but it seems to make >> >> >> >> >> >>>no >> >>>difference. >> >>> >> >>>Can anybody suggest what I'm doing wrong? >> >>> >> >>>Chris Walker >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> > >> > >> >>>--- >> >>>This is my server.xml after modification: >> >>> >> >>><Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> >> >>> >> >>> <Service name="Catalina"> >> >>> >> >>> <Connector port="80" >> >=== message truncated === > > >------------------------------------------------------------ --------- >To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
