Hi all, I am using Tomcat 6.0.32 and have a deployment question. I have a war file over which I do not have control of the filename, let's call it MYAPP.war . Tomcat's default deployment behaviour would be to deploy this application under a context of /myapp however I want to deploy it instead under a context of /somethingelse .
>From reading the documentation I understand that this should be achievable by configuration of the Context container: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html I have tried various things suggested by this documentation but cannot seem to get anything that works. In this particular case the application war file does not contain a META-INF/context.xml file, nor do I have any (simple) means of putting one in there (I am not the producer of the war file binary). So the following point from the documentation seemed relevant: In individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml extension) will be used as the context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. foo#bar.xml for a context path of /foo/bar. The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml. As per the statement above and given that I want my context path to be /somethingelse I have created <CATALINA_HOME>/conf/Catalina/localhost/somethingelse.xml The documentation for the docBase (a.k.a context root) attribute states that the docBase attribute should be used to point to the war or exploded war file. My server's appBase is the default of 'webapps' and my WAR and exploded WAR are under webapps so I have specified a relative path of 'MYAPP' to point to the exploded war folder (i.e. webapps/MYAPP). For clarity, here is the content of the context.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Context docBase="MYAPP"> </Context> When I start Tomcat I get the following in the catalina.log WARNING: A docBase /usr/local/apache-tomcat-forge-services/webapps/MYAPP inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored 01-Feb-2013 09:53:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart SEVERE: Error starting static Resources java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /usr/local/apache-tomcat-forge-services/webapps/somethingelse does not exist or is not a readable directory at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:142) It appears as though Tomcat is using the filename (which, as per the documentation should be used as the context path) as the context root, and is looking for a path on the filesystem. This seems to contradict the documentation as far as I can tell? Also with regard to the warning, I don't understand why this is being issued but internet wisdom seems to suggest that it can be ignored and is more of an info than a warning. Is this correct? I have read and re-read the documentation several times and am a bit vexed by it at the moment, so would be most grateful for some guidance on getting this working. Many thanks, Edd Grant - Web: http://www.eddgrant.com Email: e...@eddgrant.com -- Web: http://www.eddgrant.com Email: e...@eddgrant.com Mobile: +44 (0) 7861 394 543 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
