Adding Additional Class Paths

Parallels Pro Control Panel provides database drivers for MySQL and postgres. You may come across a situation where the default class path for Tomcat does not suffice and you need to indicate the path for your own classes that exist elsewhere on the file system.

If you want to add additional classes (for example, a new JDBC driver) to Tomcat's default CLASSPATH, you must add CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/path/to/my/new/class in the file /etc/tomcat4/conf/tomcat4.conf.

• For the changes to take effect, restart the Tomcat engine. Only root users can set new CLASSPATH for any Web site. If you want to add a new database driver or component, which should be available to all sites, add it to:
• /var/tomcat4/common/classes - if it is a class file
• /var/tomcat4/common/lib - if it is a jar file