Mailing-List: contact users-help@archiva.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: users@archiva.apache.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <55240300.5060509@corefiling.co.uk>
References: <55240300.5060509@corefiling.co.uk>
From: Olivier Lamy <olamy@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:25:44 +1000
Message-ID: 
 <CAPoyBqS4QGNLaHHCm28zXqCe0u9nOWCdm8z+3+wmUb1MSK=K9g@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Configuring Archiva without setting Tomcat-wide properties
To: users@archiva.apache.org
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0122aaeeeffe820513704e6d

--089e0122aaeeeffe820513704e6d
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi David,
Sadly I'm not really it's possible :-(
You need to investigate but there are probably few places where the code
can use System.getProperty("appserver.base") (which is very bad: I agree!!!)


On 8 April 2015 at 02:17, David North <dtn-archiva@corefiling.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After some successful experiments with Archiva running using its
> built-in Jetty server, we're working on deployment "for real". We
> usually deploy web apps onto Tomcat, and I'd like to do the same here.
>
> The instructions at
> http://archiva.apache.org/docs/2.2.0/adminguide/webapp.html all work as
> expected. However, I am unhappy about having to set appserver.home and
> appserver.base in a Tomcat-wide manner using system properties (via
> setenv.sh).
>
> Is it possible to configure these on a per-webapp basis in
> conf/Catalina/localhost/archiva.xml ?
>
> I see from digging into the source code a bit that Archiva uses Commons
> Configuration to obtain most of its settings, so I was rather hoping it
> would be possible to pass appserver.home and appserver.base in the
> context file using JNDI or similar. Can anyone confirm if this is
> possible and, if so, give an example?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>


-- 
Olivier Lamy
http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy

--089e0122aaeeeffe820513704e6d--