-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Igal,
On 8/26/14, 11:35 AM, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote: > hi Chris, thank you for your prompt response. > > I should have clarified in my original email that: > > 1) I am running Tomcat as a Windows service You can use CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE as environment variables before running service.bat to install the service. You can also set catalina.home and catalina.base properties using tomcatXw.exe (where X is your Tomcat version). > 2) my goal is to have something like this: > > C:\Programs\Tomcat-conf <== /conf folder goes here, unchanged with > an upgrade > > C:\Programs\Tomcat-bin <== /bin and /lib go here, updated when > there is a new point-release Change this to: C:\Tomcats\Tomcat-conf\conf C:\Tomcats\Apache Tomcat 7.0.50 C:\Tomcats\Apache Tomcat 7.0.51 C:\> SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcats\Apache Tomcat 7.0.50 C:\> SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcats\Tomcat-conf C:\> %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\service.bat [your options] Now you can start your webapps deployed into C:\Tomcats\Tomcat-conf\webapps using Tomcat 7.0.50. To switch to Tomcat 7.0.51: Step 0: Stop the existing Tomcat service Then, C:\> SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcats\Apache Tomcat 7.0.51 C:\> SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcats\Tomcat-conf C:\> %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\service.bat [your options] Now, restart the service. you can even define different services to start the same webapps under different Tomcat versions. (Don't try to start them at the same time, though, unless you have changed all the port numbers to avoid conflicts). > from the README.txt/advanced that you cited I see that I can use > CATALINA_BASE for the Tomcat-conf folder above, and CATALINA_HOME > for the Tomcat-bin, and specifying the env values when installing > the service, as documented at > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html#Multiple_Instances > > do you think that this would work for a Windows service setup? Absolutely, though must admit that I haven't actually done it myself. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT/L71AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRY0lAP/0FvOYfypBQeJfHK7NjMh5Ni q62sL/pNXPh5qA9tGjys1LtFiBNtIHPlu2KMJ+0PbXFLIy5/gOFJRQEeQDSmaLMy DTv5JIGmrQcpKn5HUOwAbH94dSPxsgWBCUtgPoNlOo8BI76c2OUw+crCCxTfjFhE lorQ7EXSp5r+lbA98EQehx9fRh84+CSwWN41fCQQsFf+Ne8ka6/Uara7Q7M72L9c 4jFJ0ZZeVbJ5tbAVa6RqiWUcx3JpUI94hO6lCootjr53ueoDUm41/1ufD25HGdDX 4imGecKMcLtMGuo+l7zW0rxXImA9muRpxMZp2er04/phLdhf+faCfqn4gdMvyV3I Ld/PqZUJYLcnMwdtKN/VMQpVqKrA3o3HfPn6cfLr+WATEnAnLLtt53PM+SMoEydC 21BvdvGG8UJ0F4J6SkBk7+OUFlVE+7BpNb2LI0sDTrBoEmsbO/Cqua50cxy09ELq xoXKImsL2UV9JbVi3oXMndoYiE0TH1dLSKR1nsiIpAoBJf1Wwtrlq4nDUeTBepUp wwhs5Sq9PQFsCAzpAz1jzb0QURcAr3OpldjWe9p+npUFTevttRPsDfa8vn/Iw5NO Vuep66WBSULFaFC8/G104xLVNN6Dx8fBIeKKF4294ScXH02MPSgemLzm4NlHzBTr YzadOPLTpPxAXK/DaSx8 =qKao -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
