-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mark,
On 10/16/14 2:43 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 16/10/2014 19:11, vince.w...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: >> Hello I'm coming back to Tomcat after years using GlassFish. The >> little that I ever understood of Tomcat 3, 4 and 5 is now >> decidedly rusty so I've been reading Tomcat 7's RUNNING.txt with >> interest. >> >> The section under the heading: Advanced Configuration - Multiple >> Tomcat Instances Looks interesting to me even though I have no >> desire to run multiple instances. >> >> Configuring CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE to be separate >> directories looks to me like such a winning idea that I'm left >> wondering, why the default TOMCAT installation puts all that >> stuff in one directory ? > > I'm not sure that is any reason other than "it has always been that > way". It is a bit easier to configure when CATALINA_BASE = CATALINA_HOME, especially for automated installers as well as the "ZIP installer" (aka just unzip into apache-tomcat-x.y.z directory). > It is something to consider for 9.0.x (work starting on that soon). > An interesting question here is how smart should we / could we make > the Windows installer? If we added CATALINA_BASE ≠ CATALINA_HOME as default, the automated installer would have to ask where to install Tomcat and also where to install Tomcat's first deployment, which would be a bit confusing to people. The ZIP "installer" would need to have apache-tomcat-x.y.z plus something like "apache-tomcat-deploy" inside of it with Tomcat defaulting to use that as CATALINA_BASE. I don't see it working for novice users, and I don't see it working for advanced users, either, because they already know what they are doing. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUQDJvAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYsY4P/36Dcuq0+2L1nL7LdGJus6+p 5VkJvzmlwFY3pfRNR4MHsXjEu8iBJV/QwDoplivZHd3KhcjoxGC8R6HKYeVHGub/ kSN1xeRqyPF1pqUJw7ejGKQaHP17UI4YeygxYCb4AKkh+L02Tkdsn+/JFGG5URmA NWlXFygxIE52HyXXfdEoV2KRY6M7frB2AFIVXOD/TpW36EO+O3QecCHQDTRZRDv1 1o5TQI++DzQeL/eBVYGg7bu/bC8jPAWC5cDBoQXE/H+iqBHbr9+C8tsSGEiYxZS+ mzC/UKhnfnNAp8PqzyLN/qLncwITE2A3QWxkDqFrk1sLlcKO2b2iXCkG+BiOewVw Iv1x8PJihvE9Tz7YZyv1MC6tVUZq5lBBviOfW+M2iHGPM5gy6j2gYMq1cxlTi1rD B2rs/0Ues0PPG7PjwDnSazZQtRrbiKYFIpLca8abgGQ8AUPlFqDtl7EN2azt+xjf Tc07l1W+86JZIkXUvcKbACkHcsHQg2bCcJtnIVaNfkwUnkVIHll/OyffgE53tL7W xzoBMGzxPNyp96mrvEbXhq+nyHRL+BCkEJDcbK2XSGKZWGTgWOxD4RUm9KUW3pNc orH8p7YQ7bj2PwQV3qZktDQ1dJw0IPLdbkhX3Nbr5Lp/80eCZXa9BFnrRjgQsgd6 Xv94kVsiBJvoh84wzViV =XhYF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
