-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 James,
On 5/18/20 18:47, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I'm hoping to get the one web server we still have on a cert we > have to pay for switched over to Let's Encrypt, and so I cloned the > server in question to a spot instance. > > The server in question is an EC2 instance running Amazon Linux > (not Amazon Linux 2), with a Bitnami Trac/SVN stack on it, and > Tomcat 8 installed independently of the Bitnami stack. > > To clone it, I created an AMI from the most recent backup snapshot, > and then launched a spot instance from that AMI. Presumably, this latest snapshot was working at the time of the snapshot ? > Once the test instance spun up, when I was finally able to connect > to the Tomcat server on it, I found that (1) it had been updated Updated to what? > (2) the ROOT context had been partially overwritten with the > default ROOT context, and (3) the manager context had been returned > to the "factory" disabled state. > > To coin a phrase, "What just happened?" Hmm. Any idea if that AMI tries to bootstrap itself in some way -- like for example trying to update software, deploy applications, etc.? If Tomcat was updated (probably with something heavy-handed, such as un-tarring the latest over time of /opt/tomcat or whatever), perhaps it overwrote the ROOT context? I don't think this is anything that Tomcat would ever do to itself, but we can maybe help you discover how your own AMI works and prevent it from doing that kind of thing again One initial recommendation I would have for you is to always have a "split installation" where Tomcat is installed one place, and your "deployment" (conf/, work/, logs/ and webapps/ directories) are all in a separate place. This way, if Tomcat is (unexpectedly) upgraded, you will not have to worry so much about your applications and/or configurations from being clobbered. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAl7ETEcACgkQHPApP6U8 pFixww/5AeUSvUOWLgqL2Jv9WQ7LYxIV/rCoZrNqFSu99/DXxq6/oBFALJtYz5Ze 6RhDyyMocmkOT+bngR+c4IUctwvmjyxAuHh6qdisL2Ftdzrra6wS5jscJgn7wHi/ NqToyDrgVzWknX0BYWflpO7KRVJBR4Y1yDMR8DD/LmFsTBbXBJKDjPycKcDnTtcJ HU+y2gXb+j7IMREJMRl95lznBKXqaBx0wV3zTPKrAOaIvbnpYiwX8YJXnx1oRpvB X4gtyPLWoYZU9WbKsZZj2djB8cbdUZQXmaE+FUg2Lx3TF/AzBHsXaplBP85KzbNY poUAf+Jld71ZSD1TW251Fnr8l04sF3ozb5R9EPTMpsu4Yj2SooTsU5wc2vb+3MvG GhiSTOZ+f+o5RBzkN83rADHIdXcPHKgrsCmrPHyqWRfmUuoU0CNObsC9llDHBDY2 vEqu/AyHRIbhzVMCO9fQ+2WY69uJ8yBr1UTLwmCKMcr05AeMWB5DTmNFubXcuaxw T2AeEe6WbX209U9TG/xYMxRTDtPD6bBj/Doa2/kKY/jaFNkx6xMkZ949PGR+32z1 ODxhaRrKfe+i/E78qvtRjpNRBIxjKp7YG8z6bpTFTO9n7N7pSfUhWfFxQZL+Wf8t sa3mZMiKloAX4IHtvmo8fGdM2s3ggmSaCWOMpEgexguxf2CNgg4= =flMV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
