On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:01:13PM -0400, Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > On 5/23/07, Roger Tismeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It takes about 4 minutes or so to (re)start Tomcat .... granted I have > >30 webapps loaded, but isn't there a switch somewhere that I can toggle > >to not auto-start any non-Tomcat webapps? > > I was in a similar situation as you've mentioned above. > > I find that keeping the Context descriptor outside server.xml makes it > a lot easier to switch between applications.
I'll have to remember that one. Thanks! > Say your apps are named app1, app2, app3 etc and if you access them as > > http://localhost:8080/app1 http://localhost:8080/app2 > http://localhost:8080/app3 , then > > you would define the Context for each app under > > Tomcat's /conf/Catalina/localhost/ as app1.xml , app2.xml and app3.xml > > Now if you want Tomcat to only load app1 , you just disable the other > XML files by renaming them as in app2.xml_disable app3.xml_something In that case, you have to either ensure that your webapp.s do not contain META-INF/context.xml or that the Host has deployXML='false'. Otherwise the webapp itself will supply a Context. Tomcat will generate a Context on its own in some circumstances which I've not yet completely worked out from the documentation. How did you disable this? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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