Although, a bit confusing:

I set the database path in basexgui to match the value in web.xml 
( The setting is commented out, but I assumed that was because it was the default value. )

  <context-param>
    <param-name>org.basex.dbpath</param-name>
    <param-value>WEB-INF/data</param-value>
  </context-param>

But web app couldn’t see the database I created there. 

I moved created DB directory from webapp/basex/WEB-INF/data/  into webapp/basex/data/  and restarted, 
And the webapp finds it there. 



On May 15, 2019, at 2:51 PM, Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <sdm7g@virginia.edu> wrote:

Nevermind. I couldn’t find it on my first hour of searching the docs. 
Then I found it 5 minutes after asking for help! 



— Steve M. 


On May 15, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <sdm7g@virginia.edu> wrote:

I’ve been learning and testing basex with the default MacOS home-brew installation.

For production, I’m planning on using the war file served using tomcat.

I would like to use the basex command line client and BaseXGUI to do some initial setup and testing on the tomcat web app databases.  

Is there a java property setting or other way to set the data directory location for these programs ?
Or do I have to set these paths in  ~/basex/.basex file .

The latter is not ideal, as I may need to run update scripts from different user cron jobs, so I’ld rather not depend on home directory.


— Steve Majewski