Data lost when upgrading about reader HOT 7 CLOSED

Pass -Dreader.home=/var/reader to the JVM to choose a data directory.

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You mean, to the JVM used by Tomcat ?
Isn't there a way to add this to the environment of the container ? A <Resource> element, for instance ?

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It says right here : http://sismics.com/reader/#!/help
"On Linux, Reader keeps its files in /var/reader."
I didn't carefully RTFM.

Sorry !

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I've found this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14984256/how-to-pass-the-d-additional-parameter-while-starting-tomcat to add a -D parameter to Tomcat.
Concerning the documentation, in fact their is no default value if you only use the .war (only with the others installers). #11 should fix this.

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I know, it's just that I'm reluctant to add a parameter to the JVM only for one of the webapps. I like to have every webapp completely "watertight" (if you see what I mean). That's why I was looking at a solution with an environment variable in the container or at a lower level (a modified copy of the web.xml file inside Catalina/localhost/ ?)
Also, it seems that I have the #11 issue, since there is nothing in my /var/reader directory :-/

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I think you can't add an environment variable on a specific webapp, because all your webapps runs on the same JVM.

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By "environment variable" I was not really refering to shell environment when Tomcat is launched, but rather to the <Resource> elements you can put in <Container>, <Host> or <Context> (I don't remeber which ones accept it) that you can access through a <resource-ref> in the web.xml file, and in your code with calls to
Context myContext = new InitialContext();
Context myContextEnv = (Context) myContext.lookup("java:comp/env");
Whatever myWhatever = (Whatever) myContextEnv.lookup("name_of_whatever");
This is how I get references to my datasource which is instantiated by Tomcat and pushed to the webapp with the correct connect string (I define different connections on production / testing / dev machines, only by modifying the ROOT.xml file in the configuration directory ($TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/domainname/ )

Naturally, I have no idea if this could be applicable here :-p

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