Thanks Chris and Chuck. I have created separate bases (e.g. aBase) and within it I have webapps\a and so on respectively. It works fine now. One question: I don't have the Context spec file like aBase\conf\catalina\localhost\a.xml etc, but it doesn't seem to be affecting anything. What's the significance of that? - Rahul.
PS: This was a typo in original message $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\WEB-INF, should have been $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\a or b\WEB-INF ----- Original Message ---- From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 6:55:06 AM Subject: RE: Multiple Instances on one Machine > From: Rahul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Multiple Instances on one Machine > > I have two webapps "a" and "b" with their respective web.xml > files in $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\WEB-INF. That's incorrect right there, assuming webapps is declared as the appBase for your <Host>. Sounds like yet another case of attempting to equate appBase and docBase when in fact they must never be the same location. > I have two server.xml files (server-a.xml and server-b.xml), > one for each webapp with different server and connector ports. Do the <Host> elements in each of your server-*.xml files declare the same appBase? If so, you're going to get both apps deployed in both Tomcat instances. > The $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost directory contains > a.xml and b.xml files with <Context path="/a" docBase="a" > debug="0" reloadable="true"/> and <Context path="/b" > docBase="b" debug="0" reloadable="true"/> entries respectively. The path attribute is not allowed in this situation; it is instead derived from the name of the .xml file. > While trying to debug that I am wondering if my way of using > two server.xml files for this scenario correct or is there > any other way? As Chris pointed out, read RUNNING.txt for the correct mechanism. Your current approach will have lots of file collisions between the two instances, causing no end of grief. > (A similar solution is mentioned at > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-3.3-doc/tomcat-apache-howto.html Don't use such an ancient set of instructions - it's inappropriate for version 5.5. Stick with the doc for the level you've got. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
