Thanks charles, i thought there was an easier way to make a default webapp other than naming it ROOT.war.
I will give that a shot to see if it works. Adam On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > 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 > >
