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!

http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Configuration http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Configuration

— Steve M.

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