On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Christopher Cain wrote:
>
> "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> >
> > > What's the top priority for the "Administrators" section?
> >
> > IMHO, documenting the various settings in server.xml is critical.
>
> +1000
>
> I spent several hours last night attempting to get SSL working on TC4m6
> standalone, with no success. I did everything the "Configuring Catalina"
> doc said to do, as well as what was listed in the server.xml comments.
> Since there is no error at startup and it's like the second Connector
> directive is just skipped, I started poking around for a
> definitive/exhautive doc on server.xml to a) verify the Connector tag
> syntax (the current "Config Cat." doc is a little out of date), and b)
> check for any other tag that might need to be set. A comprehensive doc
> on server.xml would have hit the spot. I'll even help, to the limited
> extent that I am able (since I'm not even smart enough to even get SSL
> working ... D'oh!)
>
That's why the goal-oriented stuff is important as well as the reference
stuff. Of course, as you point out, out-of-date docs can almost be worse
than none at all! :-)
> - Christopher
>
> P.S. Quick question: The 3 JSSE libraries need to live in
> $TCHOME/server/lib, yes? (They are already set okay externally.) The
> Catalina doc says "conf/server", but I assume that's just an artifact
> from a previous dir structure.
>
Yes, that should be "conf/server/lib". Alternatively (and the way I run
it), you can put these three JAR files in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext.
Craig McClanahan
