Hi Christopher and Charles, Thanks for your help so far. I made the following changes:
server.xml <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost"> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> </Host> </Engine> conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context docBase="apps/AddressBookServer.war"> <Environment name="LicenseFile" value="Licensekey.license" type="java.lang.String" override="true"/> <Environment name="BackupsFolder" value="../backups" type="java.lang.String" override="true"/> <Resource name="jdbc/AddressBookDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="1" maxIdle="0" maxWait="-1" removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="60" logAbandoned="true" username="sa" password="" driverClassName="org.h2.Driver" url="jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:28081/../db/AddressBookDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=60000"/> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" driverName="org.h2.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:28081/../db/AddressBookDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=60000" connectionName="sa" connectionPassword="" userTable="WEBUSERS" userNameCol="USERID" userCredCol="PASSWORD" userRoleTable="WEBROLES" roleNameCol="ACCESSROLE"/> </Context> I also set the autoDeploy to false in server.xml and tried keeping my WAR in the webapps folder, however this didn't work. The following error messages were reported during startup. I guess this is causes as I have a META-INF/context.xml file inside my WAR. However since this is ignored in any case I am not too worried WARNING: A docBase /Users/alex/Tools/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/apps/AddressBookServer.war inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored I created an empty folder, but that didn't load my applications either. I am guessing it's loading it from the empty ROOT folder I created instead. Feb 3, 2010 11:12:03 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart SEVERE: Error starting static Resources java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /Users/alex/Tools/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/ROOT does not exist or is not a readable directory at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:141) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:3957) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4126) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) I am using tomcat 6.0.18. Is this supposed to work with this release or should I upgrade to 6.0.24 ? Kind regards Alex On 3 Feb 2010, at 22:43, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Alexander, > > On 2/3/2010 3:17 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote: >> This is a little off topic, but I tried your suggestions. However >> there doesn't seem to be an option to set the root application >> without renaming the WAR to ROOT.war, or is there. > > You can use an xml-based file deployment model by, as I said before, > putting your context.xml file in > CATALINA_BASE/conf/[service]/[host]/[appname].xml, where "ROOT" is the > appname if you want to deploy to "/". In that case, docBase should be > set to the full path of the WAR file (or exploded WAR structure on the > disk). > >> Ideally I would like to set the deployment path to / in >> META-INF/context.xml > > It should be set elsewhere, but... > >> but configure the database connection outside >> the WAR to allow me to change between different database. > > You can certainly do this: use <GlobalNamingResources> in server.xml and > then use <resource-ref> in your web.xml. This feature is set up exactly > for this situation: administrators maintain the details of the > connection, and the webapps simply use them. > >> Any other suggestion on my Connection issue. I set the maxActive to >> 200 and after a day ended up with 21 in numActive state. So by >> increasing my upper limit I can increase the time between restarts. >> However this is really just a hack until I figure this out. > > So, the problem is that you want the pool to go back down to 0? How are > you checking the values of these settings? > > -chris >