Got it working, I changed root.xml to ROOT.xml and it fixed it. Those little mistakes make us work )
Thanks On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@pivotal.io> wrote: > On Aug 29, 2014 4:56 PM, "Sergei Kovalev" <skov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Can anybody provide working example how to externalize libs for > application > > under tomcat 8? > > I have done below but it does not work, libs not getting loaded. > > > > > > <Resources> > > <PreResources > > base="C:\Projects\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.11\hostlibs\myhost" > > className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet" > > webAppMount="/WEB-INF/lib"/> > > > > </Resources> > > This looks ok at first glance. > > I haven't used it on Windows though. Have you tried using forward slashes > in the path? What about doubling up the backslashes? > > Dan > > > > > > > Thanks >