Changeset 11291 for trunk

Timestamp:

2006-02-17T17:02:40+13:00 (18 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

mods to do with change in how we define greenstone context for tomcat

File:

• trunk/gsdl3/README.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/gsdl3/README.txt

@@ -128 +128 @@
 1. Tell Tomcat about the Greenstone web app. There are two ways to do this.
 
-A. Add in the Greenstone context to Tomcat's conf/server.xml (In the <Host name="localhost"..> element)
-
-<Context path="/greenstone3" docBase="path-to-greenstone3/web" debug="1" 
-reloadable="true"><Resources allowLinking='true'/></Context>
-
-The docBase attribute should be the full path to the greenstone3 web directory. Any path separator is fine here ('/', '\\', '\'). The path attribute should remain as "/greenstone3".
+A. Copy the file greenstone3/resources/tomcat/greenstone3.xml into Tomcat's conf/Catalina/localhost directory. You'll need to edit the file and replace @gsdl3webdir@ with the full path to the web directory of your greenstone 3 installation. Any path separator is fine here ('/', '\\', '\').
 
 B. Alternatively, you can move (and rename) the greenstone3/web directory to tomcat/webapps/greenstone3 (i.e. the resulting directories will be like
@@ -282 +277 @@
 Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, Tomcat logs output to logs/catalina.out in the Tomcat directory (greenstone3/packages/tomcat)
 
-To prevent Tomcat showing directory listings, edit conf/web.xml file in the Tomcat directory and set the value of the "listings" servlet parameter to false.
-
-To enable symlinks to files outside the webapp root directory, edit conf/server.xml file in the Tomcat directory, and set the allowLinking attribute in the Greenstone 3 Context element to true.
+To prevent Tomcat showing directory listings, edit Tomcat's conf/web.xml file and set the value of the "listings" servlet parameter to false.
+
+To enable symlinks to files outside the webapp root directory, edit Tomcat's conf/Catalina/localhost/greenstone3.xml file, and set the allowLinking attribute in the Context element to true.
 (Note from Tomcat website: This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem), as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code disclosure, among other security problems.)