You sir are a gentleman and a scholar! Thank you for all of the tips, they are greatly appreciated! I think you have answered just about all of my questions I have as of right now. I have Win Server 2K3 R2 and a box to play with. I am going to try to get everything up and running this weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to get this and the MySQL tweak running in under a day or so.
Again thank you so much. If I have any more questions, I'll toss them up here. - Josh On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Josh Gooding [mailto:josh.good...@gmail.com] > > Subject: Re: Just a few questions on my Tomcat Configuration > > > > I use virtual hosting to create /abcapps and /xyzapps and install the > > "program" in each directory. > > The proper term is webapp, not "program". A webapp has a spec-defined > directory structure that must be adhered to for proper operation of the > webapp. Browse through the various webapps that come with Tomcat to get an > idea of the layout, read the servlet spec for the details. > > > In the <Host> section, bind the sub-domain to them > > Also set the appBase attribute of each <Host> to point to the specific > sub-domain directories. Note that the default webapp for a <Host> must be > named ROOT (case sensitive). One of your <Host> elements must be declared > as the defaultHost for the surrounding <Engine>; this is the one used when > the URL does not match any of the <Host> name attributes (including > references via IP address). > > > then I should be able to login per subdomain > > Depends on what you mean by login. If it's just accessing the web site, > yes; if you mean authentication, you'll need to configure the appropriate > security mechanism. This is usually done with a <Realm>, which can be > placed inside an <Engine>, <Host>, or <Context>, as needed. > > > (since I have files being uploaded to the server). > > Do not attempt to write files into the appBase directory - keep them > outside of Tomcat's directory structure. > > > It's all housed in the Server.xml file right? > > <Context> elements are not. (Watch out for your capitalization; many file > names are case-sensitive, even on Windows. That should be server.xml, not > Server.xml.) > > > One more quick note, is there a way that I can break out certain > > sections of the server.xml file into a seperate .properties file? > > Not that I'm aware of, although various XML inclusion mechanisms might work > (haven't tried). You can resolve attribute values from system properties, > using the ${prop.name} notation. Anything to do with specific webapps > should not be in server.xml. > > > can I do the same thing in the server.xml file since it is > > a core file that tomcat relies on for it's configuration? > > And is thus not intended to be updated frequently. The contents of > server.xml are only read when Tomcat starts up; changes mad after the fact > won't be honored until the next Tomcat restart. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
