[Deploying Sakai] I want to place sakai.properties outside my Web Server

[Matthew Jones]

Agreed full path, and if you're running tomcat as a service, you need to set
these settings in the the tomcat service manager. [1]

If you're running it just from a directory (not as a service) I believe you
can set this in with your java_opts the setenv.bat [2] file in the bin
directory.

I've had better luck with tomcat running as a service; automatic startup,
more reliable logging, easier for me to manage shutdown/startups. (Though I
have had to kill the process still a few times with process explorer [3])

[1]
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Tomcat+Windows+Service+(2.6)
[2] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Install+Tomcat+5.5
[3] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx


-Matthew

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Try using the full path to the directory where sakai.properties is,
> including the drive letter.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 05/03/2010, at 4:03 AM, Sri Kota wrote:
>
> > Hello Folks,
> > I have successfully build and deployed Sakai 2.6.2 on a windows box. To
> place the sakai.properties file outside Tomcat, I did the following:
> >
> > Appended the following to my JAVA_OPTS environment variable:
> >
> > -Dsakai.home=\path\to\desired\sakai\home
> >
> > However, this file is not read. Also, a folder named 'sakai' is
> created/updated in my Tomcat install directory everytime I startup Tomcat.
> >
> > How can I tell Tomcat that I want the 'sakai' home directory outside of
> it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sri
> > --
> > - Sri
> > Sarvē Janā Sukhinō Bhavantu
> >
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