how to change web app name?

[t4nu]

Hi,
I want to change the webapp name from ebasetest (http://localhost:3050/ebasetest/) in local to (say) mywebapp.
How to do it?
Thanks in advance for the help.

[Jon]

In Version 5, the web app name used for the integrated server (ebasetest) can't be changed. If you're using a separate server, you can change it.

[t4nu]

Do you mean if I have another server then the webapp' name can be changed? If so how to do it?

In Version 5, the web app name used for the integrated server (ebasetest) can't be changed. If you're using a separate server, you can change it.

[Jon]

1. Change the webapp name in the file system e.g. change tomcat/webapps/ufs to tomcat/webapps/mywebapp
2. Change the name of the configuration file in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost e.g. from ufs.xml to mywebapp.xml (must be the same name as in 1)
3. Restart the server

[t4nu]

1. Do you mean that I can just rename the folder from (e.g.) ebase to myApp?

Is it possible to have more than 1 webapp within 1 server? For e.g. I want to retain the ebase but want another webapp with the name myApp.

Thanks.

1. Change the webapp name in the file system e.g. change tomcat/webapps/ufs to tomcat/webapps/mywebapp
2. Change the name of the configuration file in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost e.g. from ufs.xml to mywebapp.xml (must be the same name as in 1)
3. Restart the server

[Jon]

Yes to both questions. You can have any number of web apps in one tomcat server.

[t4nu]

In order to do that, all I have to do:
1. Add new folder (myApp) to tomcat/webapps
2. Add new configuration (myApp.xml) file to tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost
3. restart the server.
Is that right?

Yes to both questions. You can have any number of web apps in one tomcat server.

[Jon]

Yes

[t4nu]

Thank you.

Yes

[t4nu]

Hi,
I decided not to bother the ebase webapp, I add a new webapp (e.g. myApp), so in the tomcat/webapps now there are 2 subfolder, they are: ebase and myApp, I also add myApp.xml to tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost, the file is actually the copy of ebase.xml.
I have restart the server.

Now, how can I acces the new webapp? The server admin always pointed to ebase automatically.

Thanks.

Yes

[Jon]

The URL will be something like: hostname:3030/myApp/xxxxxx.

I'm not clear what you're trying to achieve. If you want the new webapp to run ebase, why not just rename the existing one? If you want a second ebase webapp, you need to copy the entire ufs directory in tomcat/webapps. The xxx.xml files in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost contain configuration for databases used by ebase - if you want a second ebase, you need to set up new copied databases and configure them here. You shouldn't run two ebase webapps using the same database.

Once you have your renamed/new webapp running, you can change the designer to use it by changing the web app name in File > Preferences > Test server.

[t4nu]

I try to follow your suggestion to rename the existing webapp.
I rename the ebase webapp to myApp, and then change to the location of the configuration file, but there is no file in that place (tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost), I'm sure that the configuration file is exist before I change the webapp name.

How to fix that?

Suppose that I have to reinstall xbase, will the license file still can be use?

The URL will be something like: hostname:3030/myApp/xxxxxx.

I'm not clear what you're trying to achieve. If you want the new webapp to run ebase, why not just rename the existing one? If you want a second ebase webapp, you need to copy the entire ufs directory in tomcat/webapps. The xxx.xml files in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost contain configuration for databases used by ebase - if you want a second ebase, you need to set up new copied databases and configure them here. You shouldn't run two ebase webapps using the same database.

Once you have your renamed/new webapp running, you can change the designer to use it by changing the web app name in File > Preferences > Test server.

[Jon]

The only reason the file won't be in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost is that it's been moved, so you'll probably find it somewhere - search for ebase.xml. You shouldn't need to re-install.

The licence file will be fine - you don't need a new one.

[t4nu]

No, the file is not found anywhere.
I don't know if it has something to do with what I did. Here is what I did:
- I delete the myApp folder (the new empty folder, because previously I don't want to bother with ebase webapp)
- I change the ebase folder to myApp

Then I change to the tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost folder and found that folder is empty.
Previously there are 2 files in there (ebase.xml and myApp.xml).

What is your suggestion, reinstall the ebase or copy the ebase.xml from somewhere else?

The only reason the file won't be in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost is that it's been moved, so you'll probably find it somewhere - search for ebase.xml. You shouldn't need to re-install.

The licence file will be fine - you don't need a new one.

[Jon]

If you have a working system, copy the ebase.xml file. This file contains configuration details for databases used by the webapp so you may need to edit these depending on the system that you copy it from.

In particular this file contains the configuration for the UFSREPOSITORY database used internally by Ebase. If this is configured to use Apache Derby embedded (URL of jdbc:derby:UFS;create=false), you can just copy the file, but if it's using another database you will need to check. The golden rule is that you can't have two Ebase systems running that share the same UFSREPOSITORY database.