Ok, adding a line in catalina.properties seems to set the value at least. It
appears, when I call System.getProperties() inside the Java code. However, I
still could not find out, how to access the variable in context.xml.
Laicreparc_ wrote:
>
> Ok, I have added the line
>
> DBVAL=mydb_dev
>
> to catalina.properties.
>
> Now I define a Realm in my webabb's context.xml:
>
> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"
> driverName="org.postgresql.Driver"
> connectionURL="jdbc:postgresql://myserver:5432/${DBVAL}"
> connectionName="xxx" connectionPassword="yyy"
> userTable="users" userRoleTable="roles"
> userNameCol="name" userCredCol="pw" roleNameCol="role"
> digest="MD5" />
>
> However, in the logfiles I can find:
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: database "${DBVAL}" does not
> exist
>
> It seems, that the parameter value was not replaced.
>
> What I would like to have is to define a Realm once in context.xml, that
> will be used both on a development and on a productive server. The servers
> define the actual name of the database (here "mydb_dev"), e.g. in
> catalina.properties.
>
>
> Christopher Schultz-2 wrote:
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>> Laicreparc,
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>> On 4/13/2011 11:38 AM, Laicreparc wrote:
>>> How can the variable (i.e. here BPVAL be set)? E.g. in server.xml?
>>
>> Did you read the post? It says how to set those values.
>>
>>> Is <context-param> really in context.xml? Looks more like web.xml to
>>> me.
>>
>> I think it was just an example. Would you prefer <Resource
>> param="${BPVAL}" />?
>>
>> - -chris
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