Jonathan Pierce at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In 4.0b7, I can't get war files to expand at startup in time for a context in
> the server.xml directory to not complain.
>
> I'm trying to put a war file in the webapps directory and define a context
> that
> references the expanded version of the war but Tomcat 4.0b7 complains at
> startup
> that the document base directory doesn't exist. The documentation implies that
> this should work and it worked fine in Tomcat 3.2.3.
>
> What do I need to do to make this work in Tomcat 4.0b7?
>
> My Host entry has unpackWARs = "true"
>
> <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true">
> ...
> </Host>
>
> The war file is: /webapps/foo.war
>
> The server.xml context entry is:
>
> <Context path="/foo" docBase="foo" debug="0"
> reloadable="true">
> ...
> </Context>
>
> The error message I get at startup is:
>
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base ..\webapps\foo does not
> exist or is not a readable directory
Oh, because at this point your "docBase" needs to be changed to "foo.war".
It'll be later on expanded by Tomcat, and all will be handled correctly
(yeah, I know, the attribute name is kinda misleading)...
Or, at least, it works for me using "examples.war" :)
Pier
