On 22/11/2011 22:35, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Chris,
>
> On 11/22/11 2:28 PM, chris derham wrote:
>> Java running on windows 2008 r2 against tomcat 7.0.19 java version
>> "1.6.0_24"
>
> Thanks!
>
>> I have a single war file, and would like to host multiple demo
>> sites of our app. So ideally users access demo1.company.com and
>> demo2.company.com. Completely isolated, but all running the same
>> war. Please correct me where ever my logic is wrong, but I figured
>> that I would
>
>> 1) have a tomcat instance, containing config directory. This would
>> have catalina/demo1.company.com/ROOT.xml containing pertinent jndi
>> config.
>
> Sounds good.
>
>> 2) in server.xml add this
>
>> <Host name="demo1.company.com" appBase="webapps\demos"
>> unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false"> <Valve
>> className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
>> directory="logs" prefix="demo_access_log." suffix=".log"
>> pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" resolveHosts="false"/>
>> </Host>
>
> Well, that will give you an access log for the whole host. If that's
> what you want, that's what you got. If you want the webapps to have
> separate access logs, you'll have to configure the <Valve> in ROOT.xml
> (and whatever other webapps you deploy). Maybe something like
> "ROOT-access" as the "prefix" value.
>
>> When I start the app, it works and the app works. However all
>> context's apps log to the same log file. What I want to know how to
>> make the different contexts under different hosts log to different
>> file. Our log4j file contains
>
>> <appender name="FILE"
>> class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender"> <param
>> name="Threshold" value="INFO" /> <param name="File"
>> value="${catalina.base}/logs/demo.log" />
>
> So, this is a different issue. Above, you had an access log, which
> logs the hosts and URLs that they request, etc.
>
> It appears that log4j is an application log, like for INFO and DEBUG
> and stuff like that, right?
>
> Well, the obvious solution is to change the value of the "File"
> parameter in your log4j configuration. Try using something like
> "ROOT-demo.log" and a different value in the config file for the other
> copies that you deploy. Of course, that means that you can't actually
> use the same WAR file, or you need to figure out some way to load the
> log4j configuration file from another location.
>
> If you write your own ServletContextListener to load the log4j
> configuration (that's what we do over here... it also shuts-down log4j
> when the webapp undeploys), then you ought to be able to use the JNDI
> context to find the location of a configuration file on a per-context
> basis. For instance, you could put your config files somewhere like
> /etc/mywebapp/ROOT.xml and /etc/mywebapp/non-root.xml and just change
> the name of the log file name.
>
> (which does stuff like log the
>
>> I have searched around, and found some references to JNDI context
>> selectors for log4j, but I believe that this is to allow log4j
>> separation - not directly related to what I am trying to do.
>
> I'm afraid I don't know a thing about JNDI context selectors and
> log4j. Sorry.
>
>> I have tried to add a suitable web.xml environment entry, and then
>> add it to the log file name, e.g.
>> ${catalina.base}/logs/${tomcatInstancePrefix}demo.log. Then in
>> ROOT.xml for each host I add
>
>> <Environment name="tomcatInstancePrefix" value="demo2-"
>> type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
>
>> and in web.xml I add
>
>> <resource-env-ref>
>> <resource-env-ref-name>tomcatInstancePrefix</resource-env-ref-name>
>
>
> <resource-env-ref-type>java.lang.String</resource-env-ref-type>
>> </resource-env-ref>
>
>> but that didn't work
>
> Yeah, that doesn't work because it doesn't set a system property,
> which is what log4j requires for that kind of replacement.You could just run separate instances of Tomcat. It would be less hassle & easier to manage. Separate CATALINA_HOME & CATALINA_BASE, so you can use the same core code & just create some separate instances. p -- [key:62590808]
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