Metacat Properties File

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Metacat Server has many dynamically settable properties. All of them are kept in the Metacat.properties file. Most can be set from within the build file when you first install Metacat. The following is a summary of each property and its function.

Property Description Possible or default value
user The username that Metacat will use to access the backend database.  
password The password that Metacat will use to access the backend database.  
defaultDB The JDBC connection string that Metacat uses to connect to the backend database. jdbc:oracle:thin:@server.domain.com:1521:Metacat
dbDriver The JDBC driver to be used to access the backend database. oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
initialConnections The number of initial connection that Metacat creates to the database. 5
incrementConnections The number of connections that are created when Metacat needs more connections. 5
maximumConnections The maximum number of database connection Metacat can make. 10
resultStyleURL The URL to the default stylesheet that Metacat should use to transform XML documents when qformat is set to HTML. file:///opt/tomcat/webapps/Metacat/style/resultset.xsl
xmlcatalogfile The default file type catalog file location. /opt/tomcat/webapps/xmltodb/catalog.txt
defaultdatapath DEPRECATED C:\Temp\
executescript DEPRECATED test.bat
sitecode The sitecode that is used to create accession numbers. nceas
accNumSeparator The separator that is used to separate the sitecode from the unique id in an accession number. . (period)
saxparser The SAX parser to be used to parse XML documents. org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
servletpath The path on the local machine to the MetacatServlet. /Metacat/servlet/Metacat
htmlpath The path to the HTML server for this Metacat context. This is where the Metacat web interface would be served from. /Metacat
packagedoctype The doctype of a package file. The system will only recognize documents of this type as a package file. -//NCEAS//package//EN
accessdoctype The doctype of an access control list (ACL) file. The system will only recognize documents of this type as an access file. -//NCEAS//eml-access//EN
server The server on which this Metacat server runs. alpha.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080
authclass The authorization plugin to use. In this example, LDAP. edu.ucsb.nceas.Metacat.AuthLdap
ldapurl The path to your LDAP server (if LDAP authentication is being used. ldap://ldap.nceas.ucsb.edu:389/
ldapbase LDAP base parameters for the LDAP server. o=NCEAS,c=US
deltaT The default delta T used for replication. 60
replicationpath The relative path to the replication servlet. /Metacat/servlet/replication
replicationlog Location of the replication log file. /logs/Metacatreplication.log
dtdPath Path to which DTDs are uploaded. /opt/tomcat/webapps/Metacat/dtd/
dtdURL The HTTP accessable URL to the DTD files specified in dtdPath. http://server.domain.com/Metacat/dtd/
datafilepath The path to which you want data files uploaded. /opt/tomcat/webapps/Metacat/data
dataport DEPRECATED 4444

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