James,
On 10/20/25 1:21 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
On 10/20/25 9:42 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
So there is the file in CATALINA_HOME/webapps/yourapp/META-INF/
context.xml but that file gets copied into CATALINA_HOME/conf/
Catalina/localhost/yourapp.xml when your application is deployed, if
it doesn't already exist. If the application is re-deployed (without
being undeployed), that file IS NOT UPDATED. And this file is
preferred by Tomcat, so it won't load the file you have in bundled
with your application.
Curiouser and curiouser:
I just double-checked that CATALINA_HOME is what I expect it to be (it
is), and I used two different routes to check the context of conf/
Catalina/localhost.
conf/Catalina/localhost is completely empty.
Technically, it's conf/[service]/[engine]/[app].xml but I think you
would have shown the other stuff if it were there.
It may be the case that Tomcat does not always copy the deployment
descriptor from the application into the conf/ directory. I thought it
did, but maybe not. If you have a file in conf/...etc... then it will
override what is in the application, though.
Tomcat (9.0.110) is running. Our webapps are presenting a sign-on page.
The renamed manager webapp is presenting a sign-on pop-up, and when that
is satisfied, a typical Manager screen (and normally, we use Manager
only for uploading updates, and for gathering troubleshooting data).
And yet conf/Catalina/localhost is completely empty.
I've just looked at the Tomcat on the cloud Linux box where our web
sites live. It's got two directories called "Catalina":
./etc/tomcat/Catalina
./var/cache/tomcat/work/Catalina
/etc/tomcat/Catalina/localhost is just as empty as its counterpart on
the guinea-pig, but /var/cache/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost has
subdirectories corresponding to the webapp contexts.
-chris
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