On 01/08/18 21:10, Francesco Viscomi wrote: > I do not understand unfortunately; > I have only one file under conf directory: contex.xml; > So every application installed on this instance of tomcat can view the > resource; It is like I have configured the resource globally;
No it is not. Configured in conf/context.xml means one instance of the resource for each web application. Configured in server.xml means one instance of the resource shared between those web applications that you choose to link to it. > I can > understand it, if every application has it's own context.xml file but > indeed I have just one context.xml file; > > could you please explain to me maybe with an example why can be security > concerns? Shared hosting environments. Mark > > thanks > > 2018-08-01 21:31 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > >> On 01/08/18 20:22, Francesco Viscomi wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I'm using tomcat 8.5 and I need to configure a datasource in tomcat; >>> >>> If a configure it in the contex.xml file under conf directory using the >> tag >>> <resource> everythings goes well. >>> >>> But if I configure it in the server.xml file under the conf directory, a >>> message tell me that the resource that i have called jdbc/dataSource in >> not >>> bound in this context; >>> >>> Now I'm asking why, Tomcat cannot detect that the datasource is >> configured >>> in the server.xml file? >>> And why i should have to configure the resource in the context.xml under >>> the conf direcory? >> >> If you define a resource globally in server.xml you have to explicitly >> link it to the web application(s) you want to have access to it. >> >> Global resources are deliberately not visible to all web applications as >> in many installations that would create security concerns. >> >> Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
