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

[Sri Kota]

Steve, Matthew,
Thanks a ton for your pointers folks. Making the change to the Java_Opts in
setenv.bat made it work for me. This makes life a lot easier for me as I
don't have to worry about loosing my settings with every Tomcat reinstall
anymore.

Thanks again,
-Sri


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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)<http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Tomcat+Windows+Service+%282.6%29>
> [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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