Ok I made the changes, and trying. Andre, I tried your approach, it still same error.Making changes to server xml now.
Pointing appBase to webapps. Question I have is that if I upload war file via manager app, where does it go ? I can understand that ROOT goes to the ROOT folder if I delete the root folder, how about myapp.war ? Does it go to work folder ? Konstantin, I have below version only difference is that localhost is on windows and not working one is on linux. Apache Tomcat/7.0.501.7.0_51-b13Oracle CorporationWindows Vista6.0x86 On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Ognjen Blagojevic < ognjen.d.blagoje...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kiran, > > On 11.9.2014 5:52, Kiran Badi wrote: > >> I am trying to deploy application as ROOT.war in tomcat 7.50 provided by >> hosting service provider, but for some reasons I get below message >> >> FAIL - War file "ROOT.war" cannot be uploaded if context is defined in >> server.xml >> >> >> I have below in server xml, >> >> >> Host name="Myapp.com" appBase="path to public_html folder"> >> <Alias>www.myapp.com</Alias> >> <Alias>myuserid.myhostingprovider.com</Alias> >> <Context path="" reloadable="true" docBase=" path to >> public_html" debug="1"/> >> <Context path="/manager" debug="0" privileged="true" >> docBase="path to /tomcat/webapps/manager"> >> </Context> >> </Host> >> > > You seem to specify the same directory for Host's appBase and Context's > docBase. That is wrong. > > AppBase is a place where you will be putting your web applications (.war > files or directories). On default Tomcat installation that is "webapps" > directory. > > DocBase is a place where single web application resides. It may be > relative to AppBase (e.g. "ROOT"), or absolute (e.g. > "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT"). > > The two should not point to the same directory. > > > Next, configuring contexts in server.xml is not recommended [1]. You > should remove <Context> elements from your server.xml, and move them to > /META-INF/context.xml in web applications. If you do that, also remove > docBase attributes. > > -Ognjen > > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context. > html#Defining_a_context > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
