Michael,
On 6/13/2018 3:58 AM, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
I've been struggling to come to grips with Tomcat installation on Windows
Server but I couldn't really find a clear answer. This is what I want to
achieve:
* Have one directory tree with all my webapps
* Have a tomcat installation somewhere different, like C:\Program Files
* run tomcat as a service
* be able to easily replace/update the tomcat installation
I could run the supplied installer and it created a working service. Editing
server.xml I could make it use my intended webapps directory. So far so good
(if I got that server.xml right) but now all lives in something like
D:\apache-tomcat-9.0.6. Not good. The Windows service configuration has this
path hard coded in its definition, the directory has files with installation
specific configuration and some other live working directories also end up
there.
Any suggestion how to do this right? So that I can easily upgrade this to say,
tomcat 9.0.8?
You can use bin/service.bat [1] to install the service with the settings
that you want.
Set your configuration settings in environment variables, e.g.
set CATALINA_HOME=<path-to-Tomcat-binaries>
set JRE_HOME=<path-to-JRE>
Then install the Windows service with
service.bat install
If you want to update a previous installation then first uninstall the
service with
service.bat uninstall
Be sure to check the changelog for breaking changes first.
For now, I'd be happy with a single Tomcat service but to be able to have
several (on different ports of course) would be a welcome bonus.
Use a different SERVICE_NAME and a different CATALINA_BASE for each
installation. e.g.
set CATALINA_BASE=<path-to-Tomcat-config-setup>
[1] https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/trunk/bin/service.bat#L17
Best,
Igal
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