No help for Win services from me, but:
you can configure the tomcat classloaders via catalina.properties. Look
for the entries named common.loader etc. There you will find the reason,
why the common loader finds code in CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/*.jar, but
not in the analogous CATALINA_BASE dir
It's not *that* unelegant really. You could still manage a centralised
Tomcat if you really wanted to in a source control system for example.
A.
-Original Message-
From: David Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 April 2006 16:36
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: CATALINA_BAS
Is there a way to get each instance of tomcat to use its own
CATALINA_BASE/common directory?
Yes. Clone the entire installation several times. This has the
advantage that developers can upgrade 'their' instances as they require.
Okay, that looks like it will work for me. I was hopin
David Rush wrote:
> However, when I tried to install log4j, I had to put the .jar files and
> log4j.properties files under CATALINA_HOME/common in order for it to
> work. Putting them under CATALINA_BASE/common did not work. Obviously
> this is a problem because then multiple instances, which all
> From: David Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm trying to get Tomcat 5.5.16 set up for multiple independent
> instances (for use by multiple developers w/out stepping on
> each others'
> toes) in Windows XP (and eventually 2003 Server).
>
> Is there a way to get each instance of tomcat to u
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 April 2006 15:25
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: CATALINA_BASE and multiple instances
I'm trying to get Tomcat 5.5.16 set up for multiple independent
instances (for use by multiple developers w/out stepping on each others'
toes) in Windows XP (and eventua
I'm trying to get Tomcat 5.5.16 set up for multiple independent
instances (for use by multiple developers w/out stepping on each others'
toes) in Windows XP (and eventually 2003 Server).
I've got the binaries installed in c:\Apache\Tomcat5, and this is where
the environment variable CATALINA_H