Config Problems with Tomcat 4.1

[tomyuser]

Hi,
I´m new to tomcat... Most time we´re using webSphere from IBM but now we want to switch but there are some Problem I don´t get fixed:
1. While TC running as a service I try to open a file(User.dat) located in CATALINA_HOME/Data Folder. I alway get the Errormessage FileNotFound and the Path the javaClass is looking for User.dat is c:\windows\system32 and not CATALINA_HOME!?!?!?
If I start TC with a shortcut to startup.bat and fill in the "start in:"-property with the CATALINA_HOME path in works well, but I doens´t work, when TC is started as a Service...

2. My Prog need a Systemvariable named MODE. Is there a possibility to declare this MODE-variable as a Systemvariable in Tomcat???

Thanx for the Help

 

[sedj]

Hi there.
Easy on the question marks/exclamation marks fella.

When running tomcat as a service, the "start home" is indeed system32. This is as expected with all windows services. I would change programmatically how you access a temporary dir in your webapp - perhaps you could use the call

getServletConfig().getServletContext.getRealPath("/")

to get the path of your webapp's root directory and then work back from there ...

If you need a system wide environment variable, then I would set it the normal way under windows.

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