tomcat is started by script: set "CATALINA_HOME=C:\test\apache-tomcat-7.0.39" set "CATALINA_BASE=C:\test\catalina_base" call C:\test\apache-tomcat-7.0.39\bin\catalina.bat start
in file *someConf*.xml under directory C:\test\catalina_base\conf\Catalina\localhost I define path: <Context *docBase*="C:\externaltests\test1\exploded" *path*="/someConf*Path*" /> but application is still available only under /someConf derived from file name, not from path attribute. "*docBase *is not located under the Host<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html>'s appBase" as doc requires (part of server.xml): <Host name="localhost" *appBase*="C:\test\catalina_base\webapp" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false"> maybe path would be taken into consideration, if I would also set autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" but how can I then start an app ? how can I make tomcat to use path attribute form Context element ? I tried to do as described under http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Common_Attributes and under http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html#Common_Attributes
