Shared config/ across instances

[btse]

In the webinar titled "Large Scale Tomcat Deployments", one of the slides describes the option to share config/ across multiple tomcat instances. Specifically, the slide shows the following folder structure:

apache-tomcat-6.0.x/

* A regular Tomcat install

run.sh

* Control script

shared/

* Shared instance data

- conf/

logging.properties

server.xml

tomcat-users.xml

- logs/

instance_1/

* An instance of a Tomcat server

instance_2/
instance_n/

where the config files (server.xml, tomcat-users.xml) are shared across multiple tomcat instances. How exactly is this accomplished? where is the setting for which I can point to the shared config/ folder?

Thank you

Ben Tse

[fhanik]

hi Ben,
the path to server.xml can be passed into the tomcat startup class
java ..... org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap -config /path/to/server.xml ....

the path to tomcat-users.xml is defined in server.xml

Filip