> From: Andreas Sommer [mailto:andreas.somme...@googlemail.com] 
> Subject: Auto-deploying WAR file with arbitrary filename, defining the URL 
> context in meta file

> My problem is that I'd like to auto-deploy a WAR file with a fixed
> filename "specialfilename.war" (because it includes a special identifier
> that I need). With Tomcat 6, the WAR filename has to be
> "my#url#context.war" in order to auto-deploy it to "/my/url/context".

Don't put your .war file in the <Host>'s appBase directory.  Instead, locate it 
outside of Tomcat's directory structure, and create a file 
conf/Catalina/[host]/my#url#context.xml containing a <Context> element with a 
docBase attribute pointing to the location of specialfilename.war.

 - Chuck


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