Chris Thanks again taking the time to help. Please see below.
>>> So I would recommend a separate CATALINA_BASE for each application's >>> support for a major Tomcat version. Note that you are welcome to >>> share WAR files for an application. >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> Tomcat 6 CATALINA_BASE: >>> bin/setenv.sh >>> conf/server.xml >>> conf/context.xml >>> conf/web.xml conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml [ >>> references C:\apps\myapp.war ] >>> >>> Tomcat 8.5 CATALINA_BASE >>> bin/setenv.sh >>> conf/server.xml >>> conf/context.xml >>> conf/web.xml >>> conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml [ >>> references C:\apps\myapp.war ] >>> >>> In this way, your CATALINA_BASE directory only contains a handful of >>> configuration files (plus the work/ directory, but you let Tomcat >>> worry about that). >> >> We host multiple apps. So each app instance would require its own >> CATALINA_BASE for each instance of Tomcat? This is beginning to sound >> like a matrix nightmare. :-) > > It's just more XML files. They will often look the same. OK, it's finally beginning to dawn on me. If I understand correctly, what you're saying is that each app (context) would have its own instance of tomcat running. I was hoping to have only one instance of tomcat per tomcat version running. So if I wanted to run tomats 6.x and 8.5.x, there would only be 2 instances, 2 server.xml files, and 2 listening ports. I hoped to have a setting in each server.xml point to a different location for the webapps folder. That alternate webapps folder could be shared between instances, no matter what version they are. Just plop a new application into relocated webapps folder just like you would normally in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps. Sorry, it was my misunderstanding of what CATALINA_BASE was for. When I think of "documents", I think of "webapps", not "conf". -- Cris Berneburg CACI "still struggling" Software Engineer
