Awesome Mark, that worked perfectly! I'd like to actually run the app out of the war file without exploding it and I was able to accomplish this by setting unpackWARs="false" in the server.xml.
I know this isn't 'preferred' but how would I go about 'hot-patching' let's say a JSP for the webapp in this setup? Typically I do this within the exploded directory and the next time the JSP is requested, it re-compiles and life is good. Regarding the documentation... I think it's great. I think a concrete example and mentioning (with an example) that the docBase needs to be outside of the 'webapps' directory would have prevented me from mailing the alias. I think I was close with what I originally had using the docs alone but it wasn't clear to me that the docBase needed to be outside of the appBase. Keep in mind I could have overlooked the area where it may clearly state this, it just wasn't apparent to me. It appears that you rarely want to adjust the default 'appBase' (webapps) and I found myself jacking with this value which was probably hosing up my configuration for hours prior to emailing the list. Thanks for all your help on this and please let me know about the unpackWARs configuration. Thanks! On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 22/03/2011 21:09, Billy Bacon wrote: >> 2nd: >> So I then tried using an absolute path for the docBase in the Context. > > Yes it will need to be absolute. Relative docBases are resolved relative > to the Host's appBase. > >> <Context docBase="/usr/local/tomcat8081/wars"> > > Getting closer. A docBase needs to specify the WAR or directory so > you'll need: > <Context docBase="/usr/local/tomcat8081/wars/onlinecourses.war"> > > All of this should be in the docs. If you see any scope for improvement, > please let us know. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
