On 17/05/2010 17:48, peter_f...@blm.gov wrote: > To clarify what I'm up to here - we have an in-house doc that suggests > switching off autoDeploy and deployOnStartup on production systems, and
Does it explain why it makes this suggestion? > I've been testing those recommendations on an experimental setup. What the > in-house doc forgets to say is what you've explained here (and which > answers my original question - thanks!) which is that you have to put a > Context element into the server.xml to make it work. Which is explicity discouraged in current versions of Tomcat. p > I need to get our doc corrected. > > Problem solved. Thanks all. > > Pete > > Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote on 05/17/2010 10:38:11 AM: > >> On 17/05/2010 17:33, peter_f...@blm.gov wrote: >>> Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote on 05/17/2010 10:12:20 AM: >>>> Not pointless. It limits deployed apps to *only* those defined in >>>> server.xml. >>> >>> Ok - so if I want my app to start I have to place the context element > in >>> server.xml. I would have thought that an external context.xml would > have >>> the same effect (I thought that was the point) but I'm not seeing that >>> happen; maybe got something wrong in that file. >> >> No. context.xml files are deployed via the auto-deploy process so they >> need deployOnStartup or autoDeploy to be true. When I wrote "*only* >> those defined in server.xml" that is exactly what I meant. >> >>>> That is plain wrong. autoDeployment /deployOnStartup do play a role in >>>> double-deployment but only when your configuration is wrong to start >>> with. >>> >>> Well, I guess I'll just have to be careful with my configuration :) >>> (seriously, unless I missed it in the documentation it wasn't clear on >>> double-deployment as a consequence of bad config.) >> >> Explicit definition in server.xml + autoDeploy == double deployment. >> I'll add a few words to the docs to try and clarify that. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
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