Konstantin, Do you know if this is expected behavior for Tomcat6? Should I have to specify 'common.loader' in a separate $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties file?
Thanks, Josh > -----Original Message----- > From: Baird, Josh [mailto:jba...@follett.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:07 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: CATALINA_BASE/lib on tomcat6 (RHEL6) > > Hi, > > Thanks for the tip! It turns out that the 'stock' catalina.properties (in > /etc/tomcat6/catalina.properties) was not getting invoked for the > CATALINA_BASE instance. I copied /etc/tomcat6/catalina.properties to > $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties, and now common.loader is > including $CATALINA_BASE/lib: > > common.loader: > ${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina. > home}/lib/*.jar > > This differs from Tomcat7 which I have also been testing. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:43 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: CATALINA_BASE/lib on tomcat6 (RHEL6) > > > > 2015-07-15 20:44 GMT+03:00 Baird, Josh <jba...@follett.com>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running RHEL6's distribution of Tomcat (tomcat6-6.0.24- > 80.el6.x86_64). > > I'm trying to provision multiple Tomcat instances on the same server. > > The 'RUNNING' [1] doc states that JAR libraries should be loaded from > > both $CATALINA_HOME/lib and $CATALINA_BASE/lib (with BASE being > > preferred). However, in our testing, only JARs from > > $CATALINA_HOME/lib (/usr/share/tomcat6/lib on RHEL6) are being loaded. > > JARs in $CATALINA_BASE/lib are not being loaded at all. > > > > > > CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE are set properly in the script that > > starts Tomcat. I have also verified that my catalina.properties file > > specifies > > both: > > > > > > common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${cata > > > li na.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on why JARs in $CATALINA_BASE/lib are not > > being loaded? > > > > > > [1] https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/RUNNING.txt > > > > > > The online documentation is for the current version of Tomcat. For > > Tomcat 6 that is 6.0.44. > > > > Maybe that is not your configuration file. Maybe your jar file is not > readable. > > > > Note that all values from catalina.properties file are exposed as > > system properties. > > You may try the following JSP page to display the values: > > > > [[[ > > <%@page contentType="text/plain;charset=UTF-8" %> > > common.loader: <%= System.getProperty("common.loader") %> > > catalina.home: <%= System.getProperty("catalina.home") %> > > catalina.base: <%= System.getProperty("catalina.base") %> ]]] > > > > Best regards, > > Konstantin Kolinko > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
