How to port Tomcat 6 application from Windows XP to Linux? [closed]

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Question

I have a Tomcat 6 application running in 32 bit Windows XP, which uses Hibernate, Spring, JBOss jBPM 3.2.

I need to port this application to Linux Centos 64 bit. In Linux i downloaded and setup JDK 1.6. I then downloaded apache-tomcat-6.0.37.tar.gz and unzipped it. I start the Tomcat.

I imagine i have to do the following steps :-

  • replicate server.xml settings from XP to Linux
  • copy Common/lib jar files from XP to Linux (i guess this is where Hibernate, Spring, jBPM, JBoss references jars will be available)
  • Copy the contents of webapps folder from XP to Linux. (What about the differences between the 2 systems ? )

Am i right in what i plan above ? Any mistakes there ?

Can you point out any further steps to run the application in Linux ?

Was it helpful?

Solution

I didn't think Tomcat 6 had a common/lib? Are you moving from a Tomcat 5.5 to 6? Be careful copying libs from lib or common/lib as they might be version / arch / OS dependant. Just copy your own jars and dependencies.

I would also, extract your information from the old server.xml and input that into the new one. Again, there maybe slight differences especially if there are version differences.

Make sure that if there are any context files in conf/Calalina/localhost that you copy those as well and check if they have absolute paths - if so they will need changing.

The main issues I have when moving tomcat applications from Windows to Unix is paths and path separators. Hopefully you've no hard coded path separators in the code, but you may have config files - especially logging configs that define paths.

Check for logging.properties or log4j.xml or similar files - they will define paths.

Hope this helps,

Will

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