Update regarding my second question below...The first question is still
valid as is and I am still interested in input.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Yuval Schwartz <yuval.schwa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using tomcat 8.0.22.0
> Language: Java
> development: Windows, NetBeans.
> deployment: ec2 linux
>
> I am still having trouble understanding/working with "path" and "docBase"
> of context element.
> I have two questions:
>
> First of all, I have a context.xml file in the WEB-INF folder of my
> application (call it "myApplication" henceforth) that looks like:
>
> <Context path="">
> <Resource name="jdbc/some_db" auth="Container"
> maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
> username="blah" password="blahblah"
> driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
> url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/some_db?autoReconnect=true"
> logAbandoned="true" removeAbandoned="true"
> removeAbandonedTimeout="60" type="javax.sql.DataSource" />
> </Context>
>
> My context path is set to the empty string because once I set up a domain
> name it will be redundant to have both the application name and domain name
> in the url (they are the same).
>
> This works on my development environment.
>
> When I deploy this to a linux server of an ec2 instance (on aws) I add a
> line to the server.xml file (in tomcat/conf) under the <Host> element which
> reads:
> <Context path="" docBase="myApplication"/>
>
> (If I don't add this element to the server.xml file then entering just the
> domain in the url takes me to the Apache Tomcat "successful installation"
> page rather than to the welcome page of myApplication).
>
> First question:
> Is this the correct way to set up tomcat so that my application has no
> context path? Not sure if this leads to the "double deployment" problem or
> not. When I open the tomcat manager I see two applications: one with path:
> "/" and the other with path "/myApplication". (for some reason, I don't
> have the option to "undeploy" the application with path: "/")
>
> Second question:
> The resource element within the context element of my context.xml file
> (located in WEB-INF) specifies a url that is specific to my development (ie
> local) environment.
> When I deploy myApplication to the ec2 instance I would like the resource
> element to have a different url attribute (since it will now be connecting
> with a database on an aws server).
> One way that I found to do this was to add to the context.xml file in the
> tomcat/conf directory of my server. There I add a resource element (between
> the existing context element) which is identical to the one above only with
> a url attribute that points to the database hosted on aws.
>
> This way, my application is able to connect with my database without me
> changing any of the code in myApplication.
> However, my Catalina.log file displays:
> WARNING [localhost-startStop-1]
> org.apache.catalina.core.NamingContextListener.add Resource Failed to
> register in JMX: javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource
> factory instance [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory]
>
> And my localhost.log file shows a nullpointerexception for the line in my
> code:
> ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/some_db");
> (Where ic is an InitialContext Object)
>
> There are also problems in the deployed website with some of the code that
> grabs data from the db (but some of the db related code works successfully).
>
It turns out that these warning and exceptions were caused because of
missing jar files in the JDK's jre/lib/ext folder.
tomcat-dbcp.jar is not available in amazon's tomcat8 AMI (my terminology
might be a bit off).
Instead, one needs to transfer both the commons-dbcp.jar and
commons-pool.jar from tomcat/lib into the JDK's jre/lib/ext folder
In addition, since this is not the default factory in the Resource element
that I declared (as was the case with tomcat-jdbc), you need to explicitly
specify it: factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
>
> Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> I'm new to a lot of this (extremely new to deploying to a server).
>
> Thank you
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