On 09/09/2014 00:17, Austin Jones wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having a problem with Tomcat 8 (v8.0.12), and uppercase context paths.
> I am using the manager interface (text) to deploy apps on Linux with the
> J2SE HotSpot JVM.
>
> I deploy my application as a compressed WAR, and context.xml config. I
> have tomcat configured to decompress the WAR in the webapps dir.
>
> I traced the issue to HostConfig.java line 1226:
>
> 1225: String docBase = context.getDocBase();
> 1226: docBase = docBase.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
> 1227: if (!docBase.endsWith(".war")) {
> ...
> 1234: ExpandWar.delete(docBaseFile);
>
> My applications have uppercase characters in the context path. The
> lowercase context path is passed to ExpandWar.delete, even though the
> filesystem is case-sensitive (linux).
>
> The unpacked webapp directory is not deleted, and ExpandWar reports no
> errors (since it believes there was no directory to delete). Tomcat
> reports a successful deployment in the Manager interface.
>
> It seems like the toLowerCase call should be moved into the if statement,
> or bound to a separate variable, so the physical dir would be deleted, and
> the deployment would take effect.
>
> Is there an undocumented requirement that context paths be lowercase, or is
> this a bug?
That sounds like a bug. Please create a Bugzilla issue.
Mark
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