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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

So now I'm running three instances of DHIS2 Live on different ports and
can stop and start each one individually.

My new problem now is how to distinguish between them:

1) Most importantly, I would like to see a different hover text for each
DHIS Live icon (I now have three identical ones)

2) Secondly, it would be nice if one could easily modify the text in the
browser tab (i.e. the HTML <title/> element), which currently says just DHIS
2 for all of them.

Would this be easy to do?

Knut

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks guys, running multiple instances of DHIS2 Live is definitely the
> easiest to set up and teach. In fact, I think there may be quite few
> instances where Tomcat is needed on Windows. And I don't even think I need
> to worry about dhis2.home - since everything is confined to the folder where
> dhis2-live.exe residerehs.
>
> As Ola pointed out, the remaining and important issue is the automated
> startup after a power cut. Found some info here, grateful for further ideas.
> http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/startup.htm
>
> Knut
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 18 August 2011 10:29, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > In Nigeria, we have two completely separate instance of Tomcat with
>> > two environment variables
>> >
>> > DHIS2_HOME="/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/dhis2_conf"
>> >
>> > DHIS2_HOME_NG="/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/dhis2_conf_ng"
>> >
>> > The reason for the separate instances was really just to be able to
>> allocate
>> > more CPU resources to a single Tomcat instance.
>> >
>> > You them modify /WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external-2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> >
>> > Open up "mc" (or some other tool which can manipulate inside of a jar
>> file)
>> > and navigate within the JAR file to META-INF/dhis/beans.xml
>> >
>> > and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_NG and then exit mc. This instance
>> will
>> > read from the DHIS2_HOME_NG environment.
>> >
>> >  On Windows, two separate DHIS2 Live directories configured for
>> different
>> > ports would seem to be a better solution. Then you do not need to worry
>> > about this hack.
>>
>> That's right.  dhis live doesn't use the environment variable -
>> adopting instead the approach of "wherever I lay my hat, that's my
>> home" :-)
>>
>> But it does this by using (and automatically configuring) a system
>> property which takes precedence over the environment variable.  That
>> system property is called dhis2.home.
>>
>> You should be able to set this in a variety of ways in your automatic
>> startup scripts eg. by adding "-Ddhis2.home=c:/mydhis" to
>> CATALINA_OPTS in tomcat startup script.  It's an alternative approach
>> which might suit you.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Jason
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello all,
>> >> It has been a while since I last ran multiple DHIS2 instances (each
>> with
>> >> its own database) on the same Windows server. Not sure if we have
>> reached a
>> >> consensus as to best practice on this (I actually think the best
>> practice
>> >> would be to run a Ubuntu server, but in many cases people find a change
>> of
>> >> OS an additional burden when there is so much knowledge to absorb about
>> >> DHIS2 itself)
>> >> I see the following options:
>> >> 1) Multiple war files in the same Tomcat or multiple Tomcats on
>> different
>> >> ports. If so, just download the Tomcat zip file, not installer, and
>> >> configure for different ports.
>> >> 2) Each dhis.war needs a separate hibernate.properties. Is this best
>> done
>> >> inside the (exploded) war file, or is it best to create multiple
>> environment
>> >> variables?
>> >> How to set the JAVA_OPTS? The server has only 3GB RAM...
>> >> If this has already been documented, I would be grateful for just a
>> >> pointer.
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Knut
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
>



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Cheers,
Knut Staring