On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Jordan Michaels <jor...@viviotech.net>wrote:
> I'd be interested as well. I've actually been meaning to get to this myself > and submit a patch to make the changes persist, but my schedule has been too > hectic for any extra-curricular work recently. If you don't (and I'm hoping > you will)... I will get to it eventually. ;) > > -Jordan > > > On 09/02/2010 01:06 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: Wesley Acheson [mailto:wesley.ache...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: Host Manager. >>> >> >> Is there is no documentation for the host-manager? >>> >> >> Very little that I've found. You can learn a bit about it by looking at >> its WEB-INF/web.xml file. >> >> If I remember correctly from this list it doesn't persist >>> its settings is that correct? >>> >> >> Correct. >> >> How many people would be interested in it persisting its >>> settings, by editing the appropriate files. >>> >> >> I would be interested. Note that there's only one file to edit: >> conf/server.xml. >> >> Is that in theory possible? >>> >> >> It's all software... >> >> to add the folder structure and the appropiate >>> context.xml files. >>> >> >> That's not necessary - the conf/Catalina/[host]/... files are already >> created automatically as webapps are deployed under the new<Host>. Only >> conf/server.xml needs to be updated. >> >> Would it interfere too badly with tomcat while >>> it was running? >>> >> >> No, Tomcat only reads server.xml during startup. Whatever update >> mechanism is used must insure that the file is never in an unparsable state >> (e.g., don't update in place, instead create a new file and then rename it). >> >> - Chuck >> >> I don't have a huge amount of time right now but yeah as far as I understand it, it shouldn't be tooooooo difficult. I do have another side project (in php) which Is probably more urgent to me. However I was thinking about doing this. Really I'm not sure what way the community is supposed to feed in its desires at the moment. So I thought maybe the best way was to ensure there was some interest here before committing myself. Wes
