Separating configuration from Orbeon installation

Hi,

In my wanderings through the various sites holding documentation, blog posts, technical answers, etc, I came across some instructions for telling the Orbeon server to look in a parallel file structure for its configuration, the idea being that the local configuration would be stored outside the directory structure created by deploying the orbeon.war file onto a server (Tomcat, in my instance), thus making it simpler and less troublesome to upgrade to a newer version of Orbeon.

I can't remember where I found it - this http://blog.orbeon.com/2014/03/storing-configurations-outside-of.html blog post looks a likely candidate, but I don't think it was this; I recall specific mention of doing it to ease upgrades, and that isn't obviously the purpose of the blog post.

Next time I'll make tactical use of the 'bookmark' button, but any clues would be appreciated. I thought it was a properties setting, but it doesn't seem to make sense that you'd set a property to tell Orbeon to look somewhere else for its properties - how would it know where to look to find that instruction :-)

Thanks.

I've done my share of wandering through the docs looking for a key piece of info that I only vaguely remember. I think what you're looking for can be found in two places.

First, you'll want to use a custom context file:
https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Installation-~-Tomcat#custom-context

And inside of that context.xml file (rather than in web.xml as ordinarily) you will want to add an additional filesystem resource:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/admin/overriding-adding-resources

Aaron Spike

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Thanks Aaron. That second link looks like the thing I was looking for. I haven't been able to make a custom context work for the connection to our SQL Server enterprise cluster - I get a range of odd and thus far intractable Java errors - so I had to define the database connections in server.xml. Since I'm happy to drop Orbeon into the Tomcat webapps directory, I think the first link is probably more than I needed. The second one looks like it will do the trick.

Thanks.

James

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I've done my share of wandering through the docs looking for a key piece of info that I only vaguely remember. I think what you're looking for can be found in two places.

First, you'll want to use a custom context file:
https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Installation-~-Tomcat#custom-context

And inside of that context.xml file (rather than in web.xml as ordinarily) you will want to add an additional filesystem resource:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/admin/overriding-adding-resources

Aaron Spike

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