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How to set paths in when using Tomcat as a service

Mahari Hill (484174189) | asked Apr 15 '13, 2:05 p.m.
edited Aug 29 '13, 2:51 a.m. by Krzysztof Kaźmierczyk (7.4k34694)
When upgrading to 4.0.2, I was told to set directories in like this:\:/IBM/JazzTeamServer402/server/conf/ccm/derby/repositoryDB

When setting up tomcat as a service, it wants these as:

Is there an issue of C\: vs C:?


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Bo Chulindra (1.3k2718) | answered Apr 15 '13, 2:38 p.m.
It should work either way. Since it is a properties file, the colon character is a special character and it is usually escaped (preceded with a backslash) when it is in a property value.

However, from past experience I haven't seen any problems when the value has a colon that is not escaped. But to be safe, you can use the file path with an escaped backslash.
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