Install Tomcat6

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Tomcat 6 does not ship with several of the directories that were present in Tomcat 5.x
E.g. the shared/classes and shared/lib directories.

Since Alfresco is set to use the config override files found in shared/classes/alfresco/extension this can cause a problem.

The way to configure Tomcat6 to pick up these files again is:

  1. Create the shared/classes/ dir
  2. modify the conf/catalina.properties file by:
  • Change the value of shared.loader= to
  • shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

One further change is that Tomcat6 does away with the common/lib dir so the JDBC drivers for the Database you are using need to go into:

  • lib/


Tomcat 5.x also used to have a common/endorsed directory, which no longer exists in Tomcat 6.x. if you are using Java SE 6 then copy any JARS that needed to go into Tomcat's common/endorsed into ...jdk6/jre/lib/endorsed directory.


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