Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Config Tomacat for geonetwork 2.1

[Mark S. <m....@ed...>]

Hi there,

Not sure if you and I have had the same problem but I've just discovered a=
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major pain as far as I am concerned.  I migrated geonetwork to tomcat 6 on =
a=20
solaris server.  I was having problems with intermap, catalina.out was=20
highlighting a temp dir exception.  The problem I had was that the the=20
application is using relative paths, but relying on what directory the=20
servlet engine was started from.  For example:

I have tomcat under /home/msmall/local/tomcat6, geonetwork is=20
under /home/msmall/local/geonetwork.  I started tomcat from some arbitrary=
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directory and got errors, while if I start tomcat=20
from /home/msmall/local/geonetwork/web then it works fine.  In the intermap=
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config.xml file there is a line for the temp dir with a value=20
of ../web/intermap/tmp this is the reason for the exception (in my case). =
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The relative path is from where the servlet engine is started from.

I also had a problem that was sorted for me by Fabien, where the=20
mapServers.xml file needs amending to point to the correct server url (see=
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D14192373.post%40tal=
k.nabble.com).

None of this is in any of the documentation I could find but seems pretty=20
crucial to me.  In my opinion all I want is a war file that I can put into=
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whatever servlet engine I choose and some sql files to build the dbase and=
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insert some content.  the McKoi dbase, jetty etc are just a pain when you=20
want a production level app.

MARK

CIAO
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