From a2fda55fc6e080ad5973cbafe9f93f352460339b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Ryall Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:53:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update PVWS.md with installation and configuration details Added considerations for updating Tomcat and PVWS, including installation paths and configuration settings. --- doc/webdashboard/PVWS.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/webdashboard/PVWS.md b/doc/webdashboard/PVWS.md index 301a8bea7..d73225011 100644 --- a/doc/webdashboard/PVWS.md +++ b/doc/webdashboard/PVWS.md @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Things to consider when updating `Tomcat/PVWS`: - Tomcat installer from https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi installed in `C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0` - [`pvws`](https://github.com/ornl-epics/pvws) - we are using the latest nightly .war as of 01/11/24 - to update download this and place in the tomcat `dir\webapps` folder and restart the service - jdk 21 from https://adoptium.net/en-GB/ installed in `C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-21.0.5.11-hotspot` +- You may need to update the max message size to `131072` as per "increasing maximum message size" of https://github.com/ornl-epics/pvws?tab=readme-ov-file#running-under-tomcat - this should be done in `C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\webapps\pvws\WEB-INF\web.xml` as per the instruction in the installation section below. ### Problem solving during updating - Check that the file permissions on the tomcat directory are set so that `LOCAL SERIVCE` account has full access