Tomcat: 'reload' under multiple instances

[stefan.machwirth]

Hi!

I have a strange problem with a Tomcat installation for multiple Users
under Unix.

I followed the "Install and run" instruction of the Jakarta docs and
took care about section (4) Advanced configuration - Multiple Tomcat 4
instances.

The mentioned directories are copied into some user homes.

$CATALINA_BASE and $CATALINA_HOME are set properly.

My webapp is installed under $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/<myapp> and runs
fine.

In the Tomcat HTML-manager "start" and "stop" for my webapp does a
good job, but the "reload" fails :-( In my localhost_log*.txt I
find a ClassNotFoundException for my servlet classes:

Marking servlet "..." als unavailable.
....ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class <...> or a
class it depends on
....
Root-Cause:
.....ClassNotFoundException: <....>

In the install docs there is mentioned that the manager- and admin-app
will not work in this environment. But we tried several methods to
make it run (absolute docbase path in the manager.xml, copying the
whole server directory in the $CATALINA_BASE) - with no success.

Any idea? Someone who made this installation run?

Stefan

 

[stefan.machwirth]

In the Tomcat HTML-manager "start" and "stop" for my webapp does a
good job, but the "reload" fails :-( In my localhost_log*.txt I
find a ClassNotFoundException for my servlet classes:

Marking servlet "..." als unavailable.
...ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class <...> or a
class it depends on
...
Root-Cause:
....ClassNotFoundException: <....>

The problem is solved: it is a bug in the binaries of Tomcat 4.1.27.

I just reported this bug to Bugzilla. Older versions do it all.