you may try to manually run tomcat via a script, that may help you to assign tomcat variables seperately i run tomcat via a script (guistart.sh) containing that
CATALINA_HOME=$ARGELA_RUN_HOME/SANE_GUI_WEB/tomcat export CATALINA_HOME cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin java -Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_HOME -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME -Djava.en dorsed.dirs=$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed -Djava. io.tmpdir=$CATALINA_HOME/temp -cp $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootst rap start -----Original Message----- From: Mark Demma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:06 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Using Tomcat over NFS over multiple hosts, want to separate locations of directories Hello folks I am currently trying to convert from Resin Pro 3.0.17 to Tomcat 5.5. We have several Solaris 9 machines and we generally place applications in a NFS mounted "/usr/dist/" directory, which is RO for the web application servers. I have a local link, /usr/resin -> /usr/dist/pkgs/resin which points to /usr/dist/pkgs/resin/ -> vers/resin-pro-3.0.17 so that I can easily install a new version of resin by changing that link. I have my RESIN_HOME=/usr/resin, which is the NFS mount and my SERVER_ROOT=/usr/local/resin, which is a local directory. In my resin.conf, I use <web-app-deploy path="/w/${mode}/warfiles" expand-path="/usr/local/resin/webapps"/> to have Resin look on another NFS mounted directory "/w" for its warfiles, which it expands in the locally mounted /usr/local/resin. This setup allows me to have my resin config files, binaries, shared libraries, etc, on a central NFS server, my warfiles on another NFS server and the only thing I need to have local is the webapps dir where it explodes the war files, and cache and session. I am thus able to turn a machine into a "resin server" by copying over one rc file, which when invoked creates the /usr/local/resin dir and pulls everything else it needs off of NFS. I've been scouring the web for days trying to figure out how to make Tomcat do the same thing, but can't for the life of me figure out how... the two main problems I run into is the inability to separate the web app deploy path, i.e. where it LOOKS for the warfiles and the expand path, where it expands them. The other problem is wanting to put the conf/ files in a different location from the webapp/ files. $CATALINA_BASE seems to be the extent to which you can separate things, and it wants to put conf, logs, shared, webapps. work. temp together... So.... my question is how in Tomcat do I put the bin/ common/ conf/ server/ and shared/ directories in one location (NFS mounted RO) the temp/ webapps/ and work / locally ; logs/ (all of them, including catalina.out) in a sepate location NOT in $CATALINA_BASE or HOME; AND put the location Tomcat looks for new .war files in another NFS mounted location. I know I could do it all with sym-links, but god that would be messy. Any suggestions? Mark Demma Senior UNIX Systems Admin PlanetOut Inc.
