topic Re: Must I restart Tomcat every CSS edit? in Alfresco Archive

Must I restart Tomcat every CSS edit?

power-alf — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:46:04 GMT

Hi all,I'm fairly new to Alfresco and am in the process of HEAVILY modifying my own custom template model. While we haven't maunched the service in our office yet, I'm doing some funky stuff with a darker theme for my tech unit.Can you tell me, why is it necessary for me to restart Tomcat EVERY time

Re: Must I restart Tomcat every CSS edit?

bopolissimus — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:23:37 GMT

Hi,

I have not done this with alfresco (because I don't do CSS), but from working with tomcat generally, there's a cache you can clear.

if alfresco is in /opt/alfresco-4.2.c and in linux (find corresponding directory in windows, I can't advise where that might be since I don't use windows)

cd /opt/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat/work
sudo rm -rf Catalina # or, optionally, drill down to Catalina/localhost and remove just alfresco and share.

compiled JSPs go in there. so removing them (selectively or all of work/Catalina) will have the JSPs be recompiled. I'm not sure that this will work for CSS files, but worth a try.

Gerald

Re: Must I restart Tomcat every CSS edit?

power-alf — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:31:00 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion bopolissimus, but unfortunately we are running Windows. I drilled into

"C:\Alfresco\tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost"‍

and tried renaming "share" and "alfresco", but they did not re-create and did not help unfortunately. Not sure what else to try…

Re: Must I restart Tomcat every CSS edit?

meertens — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:50:33 GMT

For new CSS the answer with clearing dependency caches works for me: https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/how-refresh-css-without-restarting-tomcat
Besides that, I've followed the advise in this post for developing:
http://deepak-keswani.blogspot.nl/2011/10/spring-surf-runtime-settings.html