On 18 August 2011 10:29, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Nigeria, we have two completely separate instance of Tomcat with > two environment variables > > DHIS2_HOME="/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/dhis2_conf" > > DHIS2_HOME_NG="/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/dhis2_conf_ng" > > The reason for the separate instances was really just to be able to allocate > more CPU resources to a single Tomcat instance. > > You them modify /WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external-2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar > > Open up "mc" (or some other tool which can manipulate inside of a jar file) > and navigate within the JAR file to META-INF/dhis/beans.xml > > and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_NG and then exit mc. This instance will > read from the DHIS2_HOME_NG environment. > > On Windows, two separate DHIS2 Live directories configured for different > ports would seem to be a better solution. Then you do not need to worry > about this hack.
That's right. dhis live doesn't use the environment variable - adopting instead the approach of "wherever I lay my hat, that's my home" :-) But it does this by using (and automatically configuring) a system property which takes precedence over the environment variable. That system property is called dhis2.home. You should be able to set this in a variety of ways in your automatic startup scripts eg. by adding "-Ddhis2.home=c:/mydhis" to CATALINA_OPTS in tomcat startup script. It's an alternative approach which might suit you. Bob > > Regards, > > Jason > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> It has been a while since I last ran multiple DHIS2 instances (each with >> its own database) on the same Windows server. Not sure if we have reached a >> consensus as to best practice on this (I actually think the best practice >> would be to run a Ubuntu server, but in many cases people find a change of >> OS an additional burden when there is so much knowledge to absorb about >> DHIS2 itself) >> I see the following options: >> 1) Multiple war files in the same Tomcat or multiple Tomcats on different >> ports. If so, just download the Tomcat zip file, not installer, and >> configure for different ports. >> 2) Each dhis.war needs a separate hibernate.properties. Is this best done >> inside the (exploded) war file, or is it best to create multiple environment >> variables? >> How to set the JAVA_OPTS? The server has only 3GB RAM... >> If this has already been documented, I would be grateful for just a >> pointer. >> Thanks, >> Knut >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
