I am disoriented with this. So I have tried to set dhis2.home on web.xml and the second war continues to use the DHIS2_HOME.
Setting tomcat to listen different ports means to waist machine resources that I do not have and the second instance will be used for tests. What is the recommendation now? Caveman On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 August 2011 11:40, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for all the input - it has been very useful. I have come to > realize > > that this current setup should be considered temporary (until the end of > the > > year) and thinking&resources should probably now rather be dedicated > towards > > setting up two national production machines by the end of the year (one > for > > the national repository/dashboard, one for the HMIS), and these should > align > > as much as feasible with the description in the link Ola sent: > > http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/implementer/html/ch08.html#d5e415 > > I see that this description stops short of describing the automatic > startup and shutdown scripts. Does anyone have some good examples to > contribute? > > > In fact, we already also have a Linode, so far with only 4 GB, but that > can > > of course be increased as needed. > > Knut > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> dhis-live is not really designed to be run as a service and I wouldn't > >> really recommend trying. Given that it has a user interaction element > >> in the toolbar etc. Running as a service is sort of the opposite of > >> its defining use case which is to have a minimally configured > >> clickable app to run on a desktop. > >> > >> I think there are lots of tips on the web regarding running tomcat as > >> a service. Also HISP India has some previous experience in running > >> many tomcat's on a single windows server for different states. Maybe > >> Bharath or John might chip in how they have set up the service. > >> Assuming that is, that they ran tomcat as a windows service. Possibly > >> they logged in and manually started and stopped them. > >> > >> I always find it interesting when looking at the merits of windows vs > >> linux servers that the argument is usually given that windows is more > >> familiar and the hurdle to move to linux is too great. But when one > >> scrapes the surface it seems that windows server skills are actually > >> very scarce. People think they understand windows server because it > >> looks just like windows. But you'll actually find much more > >> knowledgeable support in our community for setting up a > >> dhis+tomcat+postgres+ubuntu. Just my two cents :-) > >> > >> Re displaying different text on hover, its not a bad idea, but not one > >> that anyone is likely to prioritize immediately. Maybe create a > >> blueprint so the idea is not lost. From a zero-configuration > >> perspective there is not much to go on mind you. We have the options > >> of server port, database name or dhis home directory to distinguish > >> between them, but using something mangled from those would at least > >> provide something. A more nicely named instance would require an > >> additional config parameter or a small dialog on startup. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Bob > >> > >> On 19 August 2011 11:06, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On 18 August 2011 13:56, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 8/18/11, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> As Ola pointed out, the remaining and important issue is the > >> >> >> automated > >> >> >> startup after a power cut. > >> >> > > >> >> > In fact, this is really easy, just place shortcuts to the two > >> >> > dhis2-live.exe files in the Windows Startup folder: > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Run-a-program-automatically-when-Windows-starts > >> >> > >> >> Are talking about startup or logging in? > >> > > >> > Good point - that method does require the manual step of going to the > >> > machine and logging in. > >> > > >> > Ideally, we would create our own three services that start > automagically > >> > on > >> > boot. Found the following link, but have not tried it yet: > >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192 > >> > Knut > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > Knut > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Cheers, > >> > Knut Staring > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Knut Staring > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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