On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Rainer Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maxim Veksler schrieb:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to make my tomcat configuration more dynamic
>> without resorting to editing xm files. I considering doing this by
>> using parameter substitution.
>> I've seen from the SSL guide that tomcat will accept configurations
>> like """${user.home}""".
>>
>> Is there a list, or a known set of these options that tomcat will
>> read? Getting at least a reference to the cataline_home will be very
>> helpful.
>>
>>
>> p.s.
>> I know from ant files that you can do ${env.SOMEVAL} to get the
>> environment, sadly this does not work here. Is there an equivalent
>> alternative ?
>
> The answer depends on the exact version you are using. All version 5.5
> and 6 Tomcats and recent version 4.1 Tomcat supports resolving
> ${somevariable} in server.xml by looking at system properties automatically.
>
> Some properties are set during Tomcat startup, like catalina.home and
> catalina.base. Others you can set yourself by either adding to the
> commandline "-Dsomevariable=somevalue" or adding to the end of
> conf/catalina.properties.
>
> Not all config files aloow this. I think catalina.properties itself does
> only allow for catalina.home and catalina.base and not general system
> properties, log4j.properties allows general system properties, I'm not
> sure about context.xml and web.xml at the moment (you could try).
>
> Be careful: system properties work, environment variables not. System
> properties are often seen as a java equivalent of environment variables,
> although those exist in java too.
>
> A common practise in a farms would be, to determine parts of the ports
> to bind to in a startup script and to set them in server.xml by using
> system properties, so the server.xml file in the whole farm can be kept
> identical.
>Hello Rainer, Thank you for the excellent pointers. Are you perhaps familiar with a programmatic / configurable method to output putting the full list of properties recognized by tomcat during Catalina start up ? Thank you, Maxim. > Regards, > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
