> From: AD [mailto:straightfl...@gmail.com] > Subject: root context path - war file not unwar'd > > I have an issue where inside a <host> i set the context path > of "/" to a directory inside webapps (myapp).
This is bad practice, and gets your webapp deployed twice. Sounds like you also didn't remove the existing webapps/ROOT directory, so you now have two webapps fighting to be the default one. Since you're not doing things in the recommended fashion, no particular behavior is guaranteed. What you should be doing: 1) Delete the existing webapps/ROOT directory, thereby removing the dummy default webapp that ships with Tomcat. 2) Delete everything under Tomcat's work directory, since that likely is very confused by now. 3) Remove the <Context> element from server.xml - it doesn't belong there. 4) Rename your webapp to ROOT.war, so it becomes the default webapp. 5) If you actually need a <Context> element for your webapp, place it in META-INF/context.xml inside the ROOT.war file, or in conf/Catalina/[host]/ROOT.xml; in either case, remove the path and docBase attributes, since they're not allowed. (If your <Context> element contained only path and docBase, you don't need one at all.) When redeploying a webapp, don't just randomly delete directories while Tomcat is running. Use the manager webapp or the appropriate ant script to do a proper redeployment. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
