Thanks for the suggestion Valery, but swapping the arguments doesn't work.
--john
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> May be tomcat.addWebapp(contextName,pathToWarFile) instead of
> tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName) will help yoo.
>
>
> 2014/1/21 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a very basic embeded tomcat 7 application to host a
> > packed WAR file. My code looks like:
> >
> > Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat()
> > tomcat.setPort(port)
> > tomcat.setBaseDir(".")
> > tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName)
> >
> > It seems to work, but I'm getting an exception on startup complaining
> about
> > the missing webapps directory:
> >
> > SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/quickstart]
> > java.io.IOException: Application base [{1}] for host
> > [/private/tmp/./webapps] does not exist or is not a directory.
> >
> > Can someone please direct me to a better way to do this? Is
> > Tomcat#addWebapp not appropriate if hosting a packed WAR file?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --john
> >
>
