Chris (Garwood), > I need to set up multiple instances > of Tomcat, one for each web front end so that each front end can talk to > its respective database.
As someone else on the the list mentioned, you can probably run a single instance of Tomcat with multiple contexts (webapps) defined. It's not entirely clear based upon your original message if multiple Tomcats is a requirement, but here's how to do it. I'll quote myself from a message I wrote yesterday to this same list: > 1. Create a directory structure for each webapp (outside of Tomcat's > installation directory) like this: > > struts-dev-1/ > struts-dev-1/conf > struts-dev-1/conf/server.xml > struts-dev-1/conf/web.xml > struts-dev-1/webapps > struts-dev-1/logs > struts-dev-1/temp > > ** Make sure to set your port numbers for your shutdown and connector > ports to something unique among your webapps. I usually use 8x85 for the > ajp13 connector port and 8x86 for the shutdown port. > > 2. Install your webapp to the directory struts-dev-1/webapps/struts-dev-1 > > 3. Configure Tomcat to use "struts-dev-1" as your root webapp (usually > by specifying that the "path" is "" instead of "/struts-dev-1"). > > 4. Start each Tomcat instance like this: > > $ export JAVA_HOME=... > $ export CATALINA_HOME=/path/to/full/tomcat/install > $ export CATALINA_BASE=/path/to/struts-dev-1 > $ export CATALINA_TMPDIR=/path/th/struts-dev-1/temp > $ /path/to/full/tomcat/install/bin/startup.sh > > This setup allows you to have separate root webapps (or any other kind > of setup). You also have the benefit (I choose to see it as a benefit) > of separate JVMs and Tomcat instances. You can take one down without > bothering the others. Hope that helps. > I also need to have this run as a service so > that if the web server needs to be rebooted then all my Tomcat instances > will automatically restart. I'm not an expert on running Tomcat as a service on Windows. My understanding is that there is a utility out there that can turn any program or script into a service. Someone else on the list will have to help with that; sorry. -chris (Schultz)
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