Hello SMEs, I am looking at Tomcat documentation to see if there is a way to move the “<Tomcat_Base_Folder>/conf” to a custom location and use this path while running the startup/shutdown scripts.
I have looked at the https://github.com/apache/tomcat85/blob/TOMCAT_8_5_34/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/Catalina.java and confirmed we can pass a -config <path_to_server_dot_xml> to the Tomcat scripts (catalina.bat/sh, startup.bat/sh, etc). Wanted to confirm: 1. Why is “-config” option not documented as part of help of the startup/shutdown scripts? Is this a supported configuration that we can use without worrying about future breaking changes in this? 2. Currently, as part of “-config” option we’re able to pass on the path to server.xml only. What is required to be done so that entire Tomcat configuration (conf directory) can be moved to a custom location? 3. I am still debugging why, but on Linux setups, I have observed “configtest” script isn’t working with “-config <path_to_server_dot_xml>”. I am seeing “WARNING: Unable to load server configuration from [path_to_server_dot_xml] Configuration error detected!”. Is this know issue on Linux system? It seemed to work fine for Windows. Appreciate your inputs. Thanks, Amit
