On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Robert Koberg wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:12 AM, Pid wrote: > >> On 24/11/2009 11:57, Robert Koberg wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: >>> >>>> 2009/11/24 TheGrailer<ken...@gmail.com>: >>>>> The most compellig argument from the "Apache2 and Tomcat 6"-friend was >>>>> indeed the static content part. >>>> >>>> http://tomcat.markmail.org/message/il33wqqjb2dok6xz might be >>>> illuminating - along with the discussion around it on that thread. I >>>> suspect Chris will be making his own comments on this thread, as he >>>> knows his benchmarking results better than anyone! >>>> >>>>> But also confing like virtual hosts (hard in >>>>> pure tomcat?) >>>> >>>> Easy in pure Tomcat. Outlined at >>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html >>>> (assuming version 6.0.x). >>> >>> It would be easier if you could keep your host configuration separate from >>> the server.xml, similar to contexts. For example, the file system would >>> look like: >>> >>> -tomcat >>> |-conf >>> |-server.xml >>> |-Catalina >>> |-locahost.xml (the host config) >>> |-localhost >>> |-webapp1.xml >>> |-webapp2.xml >>> >>> Hmmm... wonder how ward it would be to implement this? Do you see any >>> problems? >> >> You might be able to achieve it with XML includes. >> >> I recall previous discussion on the list describing this as possible - why >> not give it a try & report back? > > > Yes, I remember. I think I was going to look at it back then :) > > The problem with XML Include or (even worse) DTD defined entities is that if > the included file is changed (the host files are set to be watched, because > it would not appear the server.xml has changed) it would currently need to > reconfigure the whole server (I think). It would be better if tomcat could > recognize just one host haas changed and reload it. Haven't had a major itch > here, so just throwing it out :)
Additionally, if you added a new host, you would need to edit the server.xml to add a reference to it. It would be much nicer if it worked like context config files. The file system currently being used for tomcat seems perfectly set up for such a thing. best, -Rob > > best, > -Rob > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
