Hi Michael,
thanks for the response.
I tried this - but no luck. In any case, I'm pretty sure for the default
web app (ROOT), you should set a path of "":
"If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining
the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests
not assigned to other Contexts."
(from: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html)
cheers,
Andy
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Maybe a stupid clue but instead of
<Context path="" debug="1">
</Context>
What happen if u try
<Context path="/" debug="1">
</Context>
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> Hi again,
>
> OK - here are some steps you can try out to reproduce the problem I am
> experiencing - I'm hoping this will tempt someone into taking a look :-).
>
> The problem we have is that tomcat 5.5.x (I tried 5.5.12 and 5.5.17)
won't
> unpack ROOT.war when it is started up, if a file called ROOT.xml is
present
> in conf/Catalina/localhost.
>
> (1) Build a simple webapp, for example containing:
>
> success.html
> WEB-INF/web.xml
>
> and place these into a war file called ROOT.war.
>
> (2) Place a ROOT.xml context file into conf/Catalina/localhost with:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <Context path="" debug="1">
> </Context>
>
> The server.xml file can stick to the defaults that you get with tomcat
> 5.5.17 (or 5.5.12):
>
> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
> unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
> xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>
> (3) Delete any directory under webapps called ROOT, and drop the war file
> into webapps.
>
> (4) Start tomcat.
>
> --> doesn't unpack war.
>
> (5) delete ROOT.xml from conf/Catalina/localhost, and restart tomcat
>
> --> does unpack the war file.
>
> Similarly, a war file containing META-INF/context.xml will be deployed,
as
> long as there isn't a file called ROOT.xml inside
conf/Catalina/localhost.
> The problem for us is that we would like to deploy the war on different
> servers, offering different JNDI resources. So shipping a war file
> containing a context.xml isn't an option for us.
>
> I have searched the mailing lists for a solution to this problem, but so
> far without luck. There was a useful mail trail last year that resulted
in
> a document being placed in bugzilla containing instructions on how to
> deploy a root app using tomcat's manager (
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35063). However our
> production environments don't support the manager app.
>
> I have tried tweaking some of the parameters. For example, if I set a
> docBase of ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/ROOT, I'll see a warning in the logs
> saying that "a docBase [...] inside the host appBase has been specified,
> and will be ignored" - which at least shows that ROOT.xml is being
parsed.
> Likewise, changing the the docBase to point to a directory outside of
> ${CATALINA_HOME} doesn't solve the problem.
>
> (Am I right in thinking docBase *isn't* a required attribute? If I leave
> this out of ROOT.xml, and expand the war file manually, the ROOT app will
> pick up JNDI resources correctly).
>
> I've also played with some of the <host> attributes in server.xml, e.g.
> adding deployOnStartup="true" to server.xml (it is true by default), or
> setting autoDeploy="false", but none of these tweaks helped.
>
> So - is it a bug (or a feature?!) that ROOT.war won't unpack if ROOT.xml
is
> already present in conf/Catalina/localhost?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Andy Cooke
>
>
> ----------------
> Hi there,
>
> We have been finding it difficult to persuade tomcat (5.5.12 and 5.5.17)
to
> unpack a ROOT.war file, either when starting up tomcat from scratch, or
> hot-deploying.
>
> We *were* able to get tomcat to expand the war file if it contains a
> META-INF directory containing a context.xml file. However if this
> directory is missing from the war, and instead a ROOT.xml context file is
> present in conf/Catalina/localhost before starting tomcat - the war file
> *isn't* expanded.
>
> Our server.xml file contains the default settings (unpackWARs="true"
> autoDeploy="true").
>
> Any ideas? We would rather not include context.xml files in the war, as
> the same war file will be deployed on different servers, which require
> different JNDI resources.
>
> thanks
>
> Andy Cooke
>
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