I'm attempting to reply to a post by Mark Thomas posted on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:15:58 GMT at ( http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201301.mbox/%3c50fda1fe....@apache.org%3E) but I'm not sure if this is the way to do it. I'm not too keen on the whole mailing list translations to threads...
Anyway I wanted to contribute a potential solution to the question of "How can I configure Tomcat such that the only application to automatically be deployed/started is the application manager". It seems like the `deployIgnore` Host option can be used to exclude everything but the `manager` webapp. See the docs at ( http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html#Common_Attributes) Example: <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" deployOnStartup="true" autoDeploy="true" deployIgnore="^(?!manager$).*$"> ... </Host>
