Sounds to me like you are looking for the parallel deployment capabilities built into Tomcat 7. See: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html Jeff
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennie.nl [mailto:dennie...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:26 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Root context switching > > Hello, > > If my idea was only as simple as renaming it to ROOT.war (this one I > know > of):) > Basic what I want is the same functionality which google apps provides. > So I want to be able to have multiple versions of my application > online, let people try the new environment and eventually switch the > root context to the new running version. This enables my clients to try > out the new version and options before they switch over to the new > environment and enables me to fix bugs found in the new release. > > I think I need a tunnelfilter or something for this, but maybe there's > something available already. I've looked at parallel deployment, but > this is mostly to serve the current users the version they are > currently using. > > Cheers, > > Dennie > > > 2012/9/4 chris derham <ch...@derham.me.uk> > > > I am new to Tomcat. What I like to do is to deploy different versions > > of my > > > > > application, for example: > > > hostname\myappv1 > > > hostname\myappv2 > > > > > > Now I want the ROOT context to be set dynamicly to one of the > > > available deployed versions. Is this possible? Is there a way to > implement this? > > > > > > Dennie, > > > > This question is asked regularly. The regularly posted answer is that > > you must call the root war ROOT.war, such that it is unpacked as > > CATALINA_HOME\webapps\ROOT. There may be ways around this, but it > > really is much, much simpler to do this in all cases I have seen > discussed. > > > > Having said that, you say that you wish to change the ROOT > dynamically. > > Why? What is your use case? If you explain, perhaps we might be able > > to describe a suitable alternative > > > > Chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
