Thanks for the response. > Make sure you don't have a ROOT directory or ROOT.war file under the <Host> appBase directory, and that you don't have any <Context> elements in server.xml. If your new default webapp isn't deploying > for some reason, there should be log entries indicating why.
Yes, I did that. > Are you using a real Tomcat on your Linux machine, or one of the 3rd-party repackaged versions? The latter has given people no end of problems due to abuse of symlinks and things not being where they > appear to be. If so, delete it and install a real one from the Tomcat download page. > You might want to do a clean reinstallation on the Linux box regardless, just to make sure there's not something messed up in what you've got. Yes, I am using a very clean installation of Tomcat 6.0.18. However using a different 'appBase' on Windows does not work either and breaks what I posted before. I have studied many, many posts on the Web regarding changing the ROOT on Tomcat, but without successfully implementing this. Maybe Tomcat just does not support the following scenario (I changed a little here): - Having a changed 'appBase' in the 'server.xml' pointing for example to 'c:/test/www' on a Windows machine - Deploying a Web application as a WAR file with the name' testweb.war' putting it in the folder 'c:/test/www' - Now the goal here is to access the Web application with http://localhost:8080 and not with http://localhost:8080/testweb How can I do this? I do not want to rename the 'testweb.war' to 'root.war'. I believe this is the only way it works. I have tried all other possibilities. I tried almost every combination with the <Context> Tag in the folder '<tomcat>/conf/Catalina/localhost' I tried having a ROOT.xml as well as testweb.xml, with different settings, but it will not work. Using a ROOT.xml that points to the 'testweb.war' results into this: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /srv/www/webapps/ROOT does not exist or is not a readable directory at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:14 1) ... The Tomcat documentation does not provide any examples for how to do this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
