Launching Tomcat

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I must launch 2 instances of tomcat on a server and with the same user. I'm trying to set differents CATALINA_BASE when launching tomcat but this environment variable is not used.

That is the commands I use:

base0=/home/$INT/inst0
base1=/home/$INT/inst1
#...

su $INT -c "CATALINA_BASE=$base0;$cathome/bin/startup.sh"
su $INT -c "CATALINA_BASE=$base1;$cathome/bin/startup.sh"

and that is what I see in the console:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /home/mci2/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /home/mci2/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/mci2/tomcat/temp

The catalina_home is ok but not the catalina_base.

Dit I miss something?

The running.txt file says : In CATALINA_BASE:* bin - Only the following files: * setenv.sh.... In CATALINA_HOME: * bin - Startup and shutdown scripts. My problem is that the CATALINA_BASE variable is not present when the startup.sh script is starting. — GaetanZ, Feb 01 '13 at 17:01
Perhaps you need to `export CATALINA_BASE=` so that `startup.sh` actually inherits that environment variable? — twalberg, Feb 01 '13 at 19:25
See this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3090398/tomcat-catalina-base-and-catalina-home-variables — Marco Schoolenberg, Jan 04 '17 at 16:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 04 '17 at 17:05

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You should use single quotes:

su -c "var=Hello; echo $var"

vs

su -c 'var=Hello; echo $var'

The shell interpretes the variables inside the double quotes, and having that you have not set the CATALINA_BASE for the env from which you execute su it replaces it with and empty string before actually executing the su.

edited Jan 04 '17 at 17:05

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answered Feb 01 '13 at 17:26

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

If you are running multiple instances of Tomcat on a single host you should set CATALINA_BASE to be equal to the .../tomcat_instance1 or .../tomcat_instance2 directory as appropriate for each instance and the CATALINA_HOME environment variable to the common Tomcat installation whose files will be shared between the two instances. tomcat - CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME variables

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