On 5/23/07, Roger Tismeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It takes about 4 minutes or so to (re)start Tomcat .... granted I have 30 webapps loaded, but isn't there a switch somewhere that I can toggle to not auto-start any non-Tomcat webapps?
I was in a similar situation as you've mentioned above. I find that keeping the Context descriptor outside server.xml makes it a lot easier to switch between applications. Say your apps are named app1, app2, app3 etc and if you access them as http://localhost:8080/app1 http://localhost:8080/app2 http://localhost:8080/app3 , then you would define the Context for each app under Tomcat's /conf/Catalina/localhost/ as app1.xml , app2.xml and app3.xml Now if you want Tomcat to only load app1 , you just disable the other XML files by renaming them as in app2.xml_disable app3.xml_something The above setting will make only app1 visible to Tomcat, when you want to switch, just rename the Context file back to .xml Alternatively , if you want all apps to be accessible at the root context, you just set up virtual hosts, in this case each context would be called ROOT.xml under it's own host, just disable the ROOT.xml files of those apps you don't want to load.
This way I can simply Start the few apps I need via the Manager and as I need more or less, I can do so.
However, it is not possible to use the Manager app to toggle the Context XML files' extension, you'd be toggling the extension manually. It's a simple way to switch off apps, or switch between apps whenever you want.
Thanks, Roger Tismeer
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