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On 12/9/16 11:40 AM, Victor Rodriguez wrote: > Being able to have xyz as an alias for abc would be great, but > everything I've tried with aliases hasn't worked either. > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Victor Rodriguez > <victropo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Chris, I really don't want double deployment. I'm trying to have >> a single abc.war and avoid having to install apache to >> redirect/rewrite http://host:8082/xyz to http://host:8082/abc. I >> was hoping there was a way to have tomcat send /xyz to abc.war. >> I suppose I could also just copy abc.war to xyz.war and have both >> in the webapps directory, but I'm trying to avoid that. >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Christopher Schultz < >> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >> > Victor, > > On 12/9/16 11:17 AM, Victor Rodriguez wrote: >>>>> Chris, a little more progress this morning... >>>>> >>>>> This is what I currently have in my xyz.xml >>>>> >>>>> <Context override="true" swallowOutput="true" >>>>> docBase="wfsservice.war"> >>>>> >>>>> And, this is what I get in my catalina.out... >>>>> >>>>> INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor >>>>> /dg/local/cots/tomcat/tomcat_8082/conf/Catalina/localhost/xyz.xml >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ...then... >>>>> >>>>> WARNING: A docBase >>>>> /dg/local/cots/tomcat/tomcat_8082/webapps/abc.war inside >>>>> the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored > > Aah, yes. This is probably because specifying a docBase inside the > appBase usually indicates a mistake that will result in > double-deployment of a web application. But double-deployment is > precicely what you are requesting. > > We'll need to do this then: > > 1. Put abc.war somewhere else 2. Change the path in xyz.xml to > match #1 3. Copy xyz.xml to abc.xml in the same directory 4. > Profit > >>>>> ...then... >>>>> >>>>> SEVERE: Error starting static Resources >>>>> >>>>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base >>>>> /dg/local/cots/tomcat/tomcat_8082/webapps/xyz does not >>>>> exist or is not a readable directory >>>>> >>>>> So, it looks like it's looking for an exploded xyz >>>>> directory. > > It might be. But there isn't a stack trace so I have no idea if > that is even being produced by Tomcat. > > -chris > >>>>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Christopher Schultz < >>>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Victor, >>>>> >>>>> On 12/8/16 7:57 PM, Victor Rodriguez wrote: >>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Christopher Schultz >>>>>>>> < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Victor, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 12/8/16 4:59 PM, Victor Rodriguez wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP! (not >>>>>>>>>>>> yelling, just emphasizing!) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I have abc.war and I want both /abc and /xyz >>>>>>>>>>>> to work for it. I've tried adding >>>>>>>>>>>> aliases="/abc=abc.war,/xyz=abc.war" and >>>>>>>>>>>> aliases="/abc=abc,/xyz=abc" but neither of >>>>>>>>>>>> those worked. This is how my original >>>>>>>>>>>> context.xml looked like. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> <Context override="true" >>>>>>>>>>>> swallowOutput="true"> <!-- Doing >>>>>>>>>>>> swallowOutput=true to allow each web >>>>>>>>>>>> applications System.out and System.err calls >>>>>>>>>>>> to end up in a separate log, not in >>>>>>>>>>>> catalina.out. See Jira CA-4589 --> <!-- >>>>>>>>>>>> Default set of monitored resources --> >>>>>>>>>>>> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> <!-- Disable session persistence across Tomcat >>>>>>>>>>>> restarts by including this line; no sessions >>>>>>>>>>>> used for many OGC implemenations--> <Manager >>>>>>>>>>>> pathname="" /> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> <!-- Uncomment this to enable Comet >>>>>>>>>>>> connection tacking (provides events on >>>>>>>>>>>> session expiration as well as webapp >>>>>>>>>>>> lifecycle) --> <!-- <Valve >>>>>>>>>>>> className="org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManage rVal > >>>>>>>>>>>> ve" >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> > /> --> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> </Context> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Tomcat 7 aliases are intended to map URLs within a >>>>>>>>> single web application. You can't use it to >>>>>>>>> duplicate the web application on two base paths. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Here's what you need to do: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 1. Put your WAR file in webapps/abc.war. This will >>>>>>>>> deploy as usual. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 2. Copy webapps/abc.war/META-INF/context.xml into >>>>>>>>> conf/Catalina/localhost/xyz.xml and modify the >>>>>>>>> <Context> element like this: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <Context override="true" swallowOutput="true" >>>>>>>>> docBase="webapps/abc.war "> ... </Context> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks Chris! I now get "Document base >>>>>>>> /dg/local/cots/tomcat/tomcat_8082/webapps/xyz does >>>>>>>> not exist or is not a readable directory" >>>>> >>>>> Is that path correct? What is the stack trace of that >>>>> error? >>>>> >>>>> I would have expected the path to be pointing to abc.war, >>>>> not .../xyz >>>>> >>>>> -chris You will have to use re-writing to do this, and you'll have to use a REDIRECT. You can't simply alias one web application for another. You can double-deploy, but there really isn't any other good way to do this. What's your use-case, here, anyway? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYSu7TAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYOjYP/3VUKDP1gZ7Vrijkl+WAOM6N IHW/2h8WdtpO4MCeXe0E0SoFI5GTGFOjFLoRiyBMTzXcS0RebWdD7ociqOflEn/z GWKAgLbZXPvkXB29Y4xt8n030g8GQMAZYreb9YixKNXcVGk5cdaOXvlfArFSzrct UBEjCXqvEjio9MT91W0GC4WkTpwkKyKLLstoDSAKfZ97SiAsPaVbzRh+Epjfbc7r M05PJp05mgPSuEwyndRw4a9sZ2BsETH/f5TOs5lLOl0tJcoXZk7nV9r7FK5yCrWZ t3lhu/5MobyeDLwPlcy7qHV+bpr5QFfHRYfdMjtQ8ujyWZpv/2kJEejVQnOtXvXT BSv7Tb+OmxjxYxpGioK5JesUhJp5JFkPL2H4qaiy4bIXqTtj2z2yWQsht71F4vBx z4/5NXi3qLUSh3U1PIGBguN7qzbkG8F+hmFeCW+iJ3w+s6yzQMx5M3KHY29E1wpQ A+A0/pUMa45nzxUhmCaOAVDuxVi8ffMiM0X1sERCo7U+l7o6kgK+zxwkEPzJ+ofy gdM1oR5O/o3w8wuVWmXzhnDMCHO5HCKTK2dIkKi8lBWQUlf7BrrCuCZiDJaF//Ry O2BXD98CC/dr5JiiR1Ox2qNXe1IwSSDJds6GO3rkGN43IjnFEdlJLkLhn66sF+5z DxksGXkejqqERpinlC/E =UH73 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
