Suppose you tell us your Tomcat version.
I'm using Tomcat 8.5.5 -- not sure how relevant that is since AFAIK this
has not changed in years.
It is highly unlikely that you want the <Host> name to be App1
Of course that my host name is not App1, that was to remove fluff and to
keep only the relevant information in the email.
The path attribute of the <Context> element must not be used unless the
<Context> element is in server.xml, which it should not be
I actually prefer it to be in server.xml
The docBase attribute is used only when the <Context> element is located in
conf/Catalina/[host]/[appName].xml
That is definitely not true. I've set up Tomcat many many times like
this and it works. I may have not set it up the best way, hence my
question here, but the docBase attribute is indeed, used.
You need to read the documentation for <Context>, <Host>, and deployment for
the Tomcat version you're using.
It would have been nice to see some real life examples of complete
configurations.
Igal Sapir
Lucee Core Developer
Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/>
On 10/7/2016 12:39 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Igal @ Lucee.org [mailto:i...@lucee.org]
Subject: Host appBase vs. Context docBase
Suppose that I have an application at C:\WebApps\App1
Suppose you tell us your Tomcat version.
<!-- option 1 !-->
<Host name="App1"appBase="C:\WebApps\App1" autoDeploy="false">
</Host>
<!-- option 2 !-->
<Host name="App1" autoDeploy="false">
<Context path=""docBase="C:\WebApps\App1" />
</Host>
Both of the above are incorrect. It is highly unlikely that you want the <Host> name to be App1. The
appBase attribute of <Host> must point to a directory where one or more webapps are located for
automatic deployment. It must never point to a specific webapp. The path attribute of the <Context>
element must not be used unless the <Context> element is in server.xml, which it should not be. The
docBase attribute is used only when the <Context> element is located in
conf/Catalina/[host]/[appName].xml.
You need to read the documentation for <Context>, <Host>, and deployment for
the Tomcat version you're using.
- Chuck
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