You are right. I should think before writing...(: I need ability for users to stop and restart a single webapp without having access to other webapps which do not belong to them. Is this possible? 2010/5/7 La Spina, Massimo <massimo.lasp...@ca.com>
> Hello. > > As somebody else already wrote, is not possible to stop/restart tomcat from > the web interface, because the web interface itself is a web-application > running into tomcat (so... to work it needs tomcat to be up and running...) > > You can stop and restart single webapps (if needed). Sometimes is enough to > redeploy the application (copy the new jar file to webapps folder), without > any further action required. > > I think you need to restart the whole server only when you want to update > some shared libraries. > > Massimo > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: testwreq wreq [mailto:testw...@gmail.com] > Sent: 7. května 2010 16:49 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: tomcat administration > > I entered the following line <user name="ad" password="pw" > roles="admin,manager" /> in tomcat-users.xm file. I can login to the admin > http://localhost:8080/admin/ and application manager > http://localhost:8080/manager/html > > I would like to give some test application users ability to start & restart > the tomcat server but not the entire admin / manager interface. Is it > possible to configure this? > > I am told that when the application (jsp/servelet code) changes, tomcat has > to restart to clear the old cache. Is it true? > > My tomcat version is 5.5.23 > > thanks, vm > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < > chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > > > From: testwreq wreq [mailto:testw...@gmail.com] > > > Subject: tomcat administration > > > > > > I have a new installation of tomcat on centos. My $CATALINA_HOME is > > > /usr/share/tomcat5 and tomcat is running. > > > > Care to tell us the *exact* version of Tomcat you installed? And how you > > installed it? (Is it a 3rd-party repackaged version, or a real one from > > tomcat.apache.org?) > > > > > http://localhost:8080 brings up the tomcat page & one of the option is > > > "Administration". > > > > That looks like it comes from a defunct 5.0.x version, which has not been > > supported for quite some time now. Install a current Tomcat from > > tomcat.apache.org and try again. > > > > > I would like to use this web interface and even give > > > some of the test webapp users ability to restart tomcat. > > > > That's not going to happen, at least not via internal manipulation of > > Tomcat. > > > > - 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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
