Hi, I am trying to find a "documented" solution for one of my problems with tomcat contexts.
I would like to ask about the tomcat servlet container( 5.x) and it's prioritised handling of the context paths in the following situation. A pointer to official documentation will be of much help to me. If you consider the following structure for my application(web) source: myapps myapps--conf myapps--JSP myapps--WEB-INF myapps--WEB-INF/classes .... The conf directory in my application holds css and images. Suppose, i deployed one of my context in tomcat as <context path="/myapps" docBase="/path/to/source" > </context> The situation is there are many contexts deployed in the tomcat using the same source (myapps). But, if i want to make some of the contexts to have it's own conf directory and using the docbase as normal for sources. I am planning to do it the following way: if i deploy one more context say /myapps/conf <context path="/myapps/conf" docBase="/external/path/to/conf/dir"> </context> P.S: i have used a "/" to add conf path to the new context. FINAL DOUBT Is it ensured by the tomcat container that any request that comes for "/myapps/conf" will be directed to the new context deployed and not within the sources. I have tested it and it seems to work as fine. But i need official documentation (for my superiors not to say that i assume!!) which shows the priority in which tomcat considers the request processing. I hope i m able to convey my query. thanks and regards, foojava
