Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:04:27 -0000 From: "Richard Stockley" <rws@procopia.demon.co.uk> To: <freebsd-java@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rossen Raykov" <rraykov@sage-consult.com> Subject: Re: TomCat 4 and scratchDir and Tomcat for BSD Message-ID: <005101c0a834$e3738b60$0300000a@plethora>
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Hi, > Hi All, > > To someone know how to set the scratchDir used by jasper/tomcat 4 to some > different location then the default "work"? > I didn't find any documentation about that. I try some things with > server.xml and web.xml but without success... > I am interested also from an URL from which I can download jasper sources. > > Thanks, > > Rossen As far as I am aware for Tomcat 3.2.1 (I haven't tried 4 yet) the work folder is specified in the server.xml - thus <ContextManager debug="0" workDir="work" showDebugInfo="true" > where work is relative to your $TOMCAT_HOME - if you change the workDir directive you can force it to be created elsewhere - though if you omit it, it defaults to 'work' in the $TOMCAT_HOME directory. I think that it still has to be called 'work' whereever you put it but don't quote me on that. Obviously I'm not sure if there is a fundamental difference in Tomcat 4 Onto the Tomcat for BSD Issue - I am a recent convert to FreeBSD and have been working at putting together a tomcat port which, to please our sysadmin, actually keeps to the BSD hierarchy. Basically in order to do I needed to use the src version of tomcat and servletapi so I could tweak it. As a result the 'conf' folder defaults to /usr/local/etc/tomcat, the binaries are put in /usr/local/bin, libs are in usr/local/share/java/classes, logs in /var/log and docs in /usr/local/share/doc/java/tomcat. The Port sets the $TOMCAT_HOME to /usr/local/www and creates the webapps and work directory there. have also tweaked it so that the mod-jk.conf-auto is actually pointing /usr/local/libexec/apache. I also patched mod_jk so it works (I found the supplied Makefile generated an unusable module). Before anybody asks you can replace all mentions of /usr/local with $PREFIX..... One of the caveats to working with src ditribution is that you need a port of ant also - which several have been submitted but not committed so I have written my own based on the recent 1.3 release which also works within the BSD hierarchy. The other caveat is that I split tomcat into several separate ports , servletapi, tomcat, mod_jk and I also put together a binary port of the jsse package from sun. In my experience tomcat 3.2.1 will compile on all four of the FreeBSD JDK ports but for jdk1.2.2, linux-jdk1.2.2 and 1.3.0 you have to have the jsse jars to get it to work. The ports i've made reflect that issue also. Basically I was wondering if people out there felt this was worth submitting - I've noticed java ports generally do not make it to the commit stage readily though i'm not sure if this is lack of interest or some other issue. I also realise a binary install of tomcat would only require one download not up to four!! and also some people actually prefer preformed jar's but for tomcat at least this restricts them to installations into /usr/local/tomcat or similar. This solution may be somewhat overkill but it was fun writing it. Since I also got into this whole porting lark as a way of learning to use jsp / servlets this port would need testing with some real life examples which i haven't really done very much yet. please let me know if this is of any use and I can submit them. -- Richard Stockley: Internet Developer - rws@procopia.com Procopia Ltd UK Mobile - 07941 026 869 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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