Ok, thanks Chuck. Perhaps I'll put my war elsewhere... I just don't know where it would be best placed. ~ David
n828cl wrote: > >> From: David Smiley @MITRE.org [mailto:dsmi...@mitre.org] >> Subject: Deploying a war to the root URL path >> >> As a matter of taste, I'd prefer not to name my war "ROOT.war" > > So you don't want to do things the easy way... > >> I'd like it to be named after what it is, which is JIRA >> -- so jira.war. And I'd like it to be in Tomcat's webapp >> directory since that is the expected place to find webapps. > > You can't do both. Either follow standard practice and rename the file to > ROOT.war, or keep it outside of the <Host> appBase directory and create a > conf/Catalina/[host]/ROOT.xml file containing a <Context> element with a > docBase attribute that points to the location of jira.war. One of the > advantages of keeping production webapps outside of the <Host> appBase, is > that it makes upgrading from one Tomcat version to another much easier. > > - 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 > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Deploying-a-war-to-the-root-URL-path-tp29493194p29493909.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
