Installing multiple Tomcat instances

thore · 2014-05-20 12:27:36

Any best practices for installing multiple Tomcat instances in Arch Linux?

Stebalien · 2014-05-20 15:31:17

Could you be more specific? The tomcat versions (tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8) don't conflict with each other.

firecat53 · 2014-05-20 16:08:24

I'd suggest looking at Docker. Perfect for multiple isolated instances of one application. Then if you need to you can run them behind something like nginx as a reverse proxy.

Scott

thore · 2014-05-21 09:14:41

@firecat53: Ok, I'll have a look at that. But as Tomcat is "natively" supporting multiple instances, I would prefer to avoid any additional tools.
@Stebalien: Pick any, per se, as long as we're talking multiple instances of the same version ;-) I'm mostly working with tomcat7, though.

teekay · 2014-05-23 11:23:11

I guess your question is a bit wrong, indeed. You want to run multiple instances of the same installation rather than installing them, right?

If so, you can create a separate runtime folder structure by copying the default /usr/share/tomcat7 one, e.g. to /var/lib/tomcat7-domain1 or something. Configure the ports in conf/server.xml for each instance.

Then copy the default systemd service file (e.g. /usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat7.service) to /etc/systemd/system under a different name (e.g. tomcat7-domain1.service) and edit the variables in it according to your runtime folder structure.

thore · 2014-06-02 12:16:14

Well, that doesn't sound much like an Arch Linux Best Practice. I would be better off doing manual installs of Tomcat from the standard package.

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#1 2014-05-20 12:27:36

Installing multiple Tomcat instances

#2 2014-05-20 15:31:17

Re: Installing multiple Tomcat instances

#3 2014-05-20 16:08:24

Re: Installing multiple Tomcat instances

#4 2014-05-21 09:14:41

Re: Installing multiple Tomcat instances

#5 2014-05-23 11:23:11

Re: Installing multiple Tomcat instances

#6 2014-06-02 12:16:14

Re: Installing multiple Tomcat instances

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