"Jim Cant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way I can use replaceable parameters in an application's xml > configuration file and pass a value in on the Tomcat command line. In > particular, I would like to set the value of docBase so that I can launch > tomcat and have it find my app in different locations without having to > edit > the xml config file. > > For example, in the application config file > (say, $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myAppConfig.xml) > put something like > > <Context path="/theAppPath" docBase="${APP_PATH}" ... > > so that ${APP_PATH} (or whatever the correct syntax is) gets replaced when > Tomcat is started with something like > > $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup ... -DAPP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here ... >
This won't work, but (assuming that you have a reasonably receint Tomcat) if you create a setenv.sh in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory that includes: CATALINA_OPTS="-DAPP_PATH=/my/app/lives/here" export CATALINA_OPTS then Tomcat will perform the variable replacement when parsing the context.xml file. > and have the value for the variable replace the placeholder in the config > file. > > Thanks a lot, > > Jim Cant > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
