On 7/4/2014 9:04 PM, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote:
I'm a little confused about the Host appBase attribute.
Let's say that my website resides in D:\www\site1
I don't like using {Tomcat}/webapps so I don't want to have it as a
base directory for websites. What I've been doing so far is create an
empty folder alongside "webapps", named "empty", and use it as
appBase, e.g.
<Host name="Site1" appBase="empty" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false">
<!-- this works but what's the deal with appBase? !-->
<Context path="/" docBase="D:/www/site1" />
</Host>
But it feels like I'm doing something wrong. I expect this to work,
but it doesn't:
<Host name="Site1" appBase="D:/www/site1" unpackWARs="false"
autoDeploy="false">
<!-- this doesn't work !-->
</Host>
Can anyone explain why the snippet above doesn't work, and if that is
the way it should be, then what is the purpose of Host/appBase?
TIA
Hi, Igal-
What version of Tomcat are you using? Also, it is recommended that
<Context> elements not be placed directly in server.xml. See:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Defining_a_context
That said, you shouldn't need the empty directory. I've used an
absolute path for the <Host> appBase attribute with relative paths for
<Context> docBase attributes in Tomcat 6 and 7 without any problems. I
haven't tried it with absolute paths for both appBase and docBase.
Lastly, are you sure you want "/" for the <Context> path attribute in
the first example above? The <Context> path for the default web
application of a <Host> should be an empty string (""). See:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Common_Attributes
-Terence Bandoian
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