Petr Jiricka wrote: > On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Petr Sumbera wrote: > >> Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:19:54AM +0200, Petr Sumbera wrote: >>>> Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: >>>>> Why conf is located in /var/tomcat6/conf? Shouldn't it be /etc/ >>>>> tomcat6/conf? >>>> Tomcat expects its configuration at CATALINA_BASE/conf directory. >>>> It seems >>>> to be kind of hardwired there. >>> We can create a patch to remove this hardwired thing. If patch >>> requires too >>> many changes then here is a alternative approach which I think can >>> work : >>> * Put the configuration in /etc/tomcat6/conf >>> * Create the symbolic link in /var/tomcat6 directory e.g >>> # ln -s /etc/tomcat6/conf /var/tomcat6/conf >>> >>> If possible, patching the source code is best choice (and not >>> using symlinks). >>> That's what Web Stack team is doing for integrating apache and php. >> Tomcat is often used by several users/projects on the same server. In >> such case CATALINA_BASE is set to point to different directory. Moving >> configuration out of CATALINA_BASE and placing it in /etc wouldn't >> allow >> this. > > One other consideration is how should (and will) this work with > NetBeans? When you install NetBeans through the installer, it also > includes Tomcat: http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.5/beta/. But > when you download NetBeans via OpenSolaris packages, then the right > thing would be to use the installation of Tomcat that comes with > webstack. At the same time, when Tomcat is started from NetBeans, it > should probably use a separate configuration dir (CATALINA_BASE), > because in NetBeans you are using Tomcat for *development*, and you > probably don't want your development environment to clash with the > "production" environment. This is what NetBeans already does - it > creates its own CATALINA_BASE at $HOME/.netbeans/<nbversion>/ > tomcat_base. > > So, will this be possible with the Tomcat included with webstack? > Will NetBeans be able to specify its own Tomcat configuration > directory under the .netbeans dir?
I believe this feasible. If NetBeans are able to run with Tomcat 6.0.x (which is now greatest stable one), they just need to use CATALINA_BASE and set up different TCP port then is standard one. When I have testing packages with Tomcat according this proposal we can try to test it. Petr
