Thanks, Peter, but that's not really the question. I have the defaults configured and working just fine; it's the file itself I wish to move from the $CATALINA_BASE directory structure to another location.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Rossbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: moving the context xml from $CATALINA_BASE/conf/ Hi, you can confgure defaults at $CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml or $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost/context.xml.default. Please read http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html Regards Peter Am 19.10.2006 um 00:16 schrieb Molina, Teresa: > Does anyone know how to specify a location for the default context.xml > file outside of $CATALINA_BASE/conf? I have looked through the Tomcat > source code and found a reference to the constant for the default file > name itself, "conf/context.xml," as well as getters and setters that > seem to over-ride this location and name (in > ./container/catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/startup/ > ContextConfig > .java and > ./container/catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/core/ > StandardContext. > java). However, after a (manual) step-through of the code, I cannot > find where any Tomcat class is calling setDefaultContextXml. Also, > after grepping every file within the source, I can find no reference > to the method outside the classes that define it. (Even if the classes > are called on reflection, some literal would have to contain a string > of the set method name itself.) > > Because this alternative configuration need does not seem to be > common, I cannot find any reference to moving the context xml file > anywhere but the code itself. Obviously, any help would be > appreciated. > > Background Information (Why I want to do this.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The gist of the matter is that I am in the process of upgrading our > installation of Tomcat from 4.4 to 5.5. In our 4.x implementation, we > had configured a default context to define the jdbc connections > commonly used by our multiple webapps (we are running more than a > dozen webapps under one Tomcat JVM, basically all using the same DB > connection resources). Previously, the context element > (defaultContext) was contained within the server.xml itself, and we > were able to place that xml file in multiple paths on our system, > using the "-config {path}" > option when calling startup.sh. > > Because we run our webapps in a variety of environments (a development > environment, QC, stage and prod) -- each with its own database -- with > Tomcat 4.x, we are currently able to use multiple versions of the > server.xml, wherein the values defined for the connection parameter > correspond to its environment's database. (Basically, we have defined > a conf directory for each of our environments, like, "conf_dev" and > "conf_qa" in which we currently store server.xml; using cvs, we have > deployed the directory by checking it out as "conf," allowing us to > retrieve the server.xml with the relevant URL and password.) > > However, I cannot find a similar solution now that context.xml takes > the place of the defaultcontext within server xml. Obviously, you are > able to define $CATALINA_BASE on startup, which ultimately would allow > us to have multiple locations for conf/context.xml, but we do not need > to also keep multiple copies of all the files under conf, logs, work, > etc. > > Putting the resources in context.xml under $CATALINA_BASE/conf is the > only successful way I have been able to retrieve JNDI resources > properly. > > Thank you sincerely for your help, > Teresa --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
