[MOBY-dev] Deploying on a remote machine in dashboard

[Martin Senger]

Hi,

I was looking at the problem how to assign some properties for the remote
deployment from Dashboard. I could not replicate the problem but I found a
missing piece in the help. Here is how it works (but please let me know if
you experienced different behaviour):

1) The Dashboard takes the information as entered in the fields "Tomcat home
directory", AAxis relative path in tomcat", "Hostname", "port" and "path of
axis admin servlet" and tries to use them in the newly created
build.xmlfile that will be used on the remote machine. So far, so
good.

2) But doing the above, Dashboard may be also influenced by properties
defined in your build.properties file (because Dashboard uses Ant to do the
job). The properties in question are:

cross.tomcat.home
cross.tomcat.host
cross.tomcat.host

If you have them defined in your build.properties, they will take,
unfortunately, precedence over the field values entered in Dashboard.
Andreas, could you please confirm that it is your case?

3) The same may happen, if you have set the CATALINA_HOME environment
variable. Again, this may (I say 'may' because I have not tried this
alternative now) take precedence over the field values in Dashboard.

At the moment, I do not know how to fix it (easily), or if to fix it at all.
It is, of course, possible, but could we live with just mentioning these
consequences in the help?

Cheers,
Martin

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