-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Neven,
On 8/22/14, 2:59 AM, Neven Cvetkovic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:40 PM, David Kerber > <dcker...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> On 8/21/2014 6:18 PM, André Warnier wrote: >>> >>> Now all that's left to do is for someone to make a version of >>> this that works for installing and starting the same as Windows >>> Services. >>> >>> Despite what Christopher wrote - which is basically right - >>> there is still some tricky element there, in that you cannot >>> set the "system-wide" environment variables JAVA_HOME, >>> CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. If you do, then each of the >>> respective (tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8) "service.bat" will use >>> the set values, and never prompt for another. I have not >>> actually tested this scenario, but looking at the code of the >>> "service.bat" file, I believe that in case you install multiple >>> Tomcat services, there is a potential for misbehaving there >>> (for example, it requires JAVA_HOME to be set, but which one >>> ?). >>> >> >> I think the intent of the instructions was to allow you to run >> any of them, but start them at different times, changing the >> environment variables as appropriate before starting each one. >> Once an instance is started, I believe it's safe to change the >> env var's to start the next one. >> >> > André and David, > > I wanted to exactly avoid installing Tomcat as a Windows service. > My (assumed) goal was to have operational Tomcat instances that I > can start/stop at will. I also tried to avoid setting any of the > environment variables (CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE, JAVA_HOME, > PATH) globally or for the running "shell" (command prompt window) - > but rather scope it to the execution of the particular startup > script. So just write a batch script that looks like this: @ECHO OFF SET CATALINA_BASE=whatever SET CATALINA_HOME=whatever CALL %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.sh start Name it tomcat-start-environmentX.bat and create one for each environment. If you want to be able to start/stop them, etc. then you can use bin\startup.bat for an example of how to copy command-line arguments from the current script and pass them to another (hint: it's not as easy as it is in a *NIX shell). I wouldn't ever recommend setting CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE globally. If you want to use multiple environments without installing a Windows Servics or writing your own wrappers, etc. then you *must* use the environment variables to control where Tomcat looks for things. It's just not that difficult to do given the flexibility it gives you. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT960XAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRY/OsQALkmelpL6Di11fCQ/ZZvDHDx 8xtmf79+NJsTCt9Kjd34Tp1XqL3v010chw3athA/ks2UdWh6/9j2jBjFYQ5e7qAF EpRO4kGxCMs1h3HKlf4zcy9xiE2M1g3hURYkKBeFGgO4Iw0Qx3UVrQTUJTlcIJyL AiLjv9ZvG6ePo3VN/3ju1Stf4aNPmT6Y3Qaaa//ArGt3LU/Zg2YqalwbbvmV2R7v FGUBlBKgC00jCOVOdlhbSdh2fmv9Wv7FTUV7Yor47NUZnAHpyG5+UjRbE1o60emU HnT9JqLho5T0raVfeWKw/jOnyZMzqGibYUH6QlBRXsIYSeiQuRAJ5JCNEm+qJClh fsuXcKEjofuUOwVutto8dMM7GuBPcPrzj2wkNLwRomxi1MuUGtJDyoFFNZc9VDOA 5fxQBqbDhowXuv0dDbZRtFY81w5hXLhLmdItutJKnXnhbUem9Y9q1vrSyCWalKoD iXWraE7pvKFKeK6ymtPmrswP9u0Esp9bGxxA7EHkjQdsy4LZoKCuIV+K1fqMnceD Q9z4UqIf5mmTMdTQsB1iGB1BiUKPKCnIXtcvAajK5/9LX0SfHeKVoAjfHY/xA3fI W5X6SnC1j5etfT/51RKlEGiJs0Qgl4edvYqy8KTop+XsWA7RQGmOG9giDKGCUa0X MoYIaytnTrD2kgzsPRdP =CnQ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
