Mark Thomas <markt <at> apache.org> writes: > > On 22/03/2011 21:53, Billy Bacon wrote: > > 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. > > It shouldn't be doing that if the WAR is outside the appBase. That loks > like a bug. Tomcat 7 was doing this and I fixed that fairly recently. > > > 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. > > In that case you'll have to expand your WAR and set the docBase to the > expanded directory. > > > 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. > > The relevant docs are: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0- doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment > and > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html > > There is certainly scope in there for a sentence or two about deploying > a WAR/directory under a context path not related to its name and/or > deploying a WAR/directory it multiple times. Drafts welcome. > > Mark >
Hi Mark, In regards to your recommendations, the documentation and in line with multiple contexts sharing a single war file: - the situation is like the one above - there are no crushes, Tomcat works fine - 'docBase' is insensitive to both relative and absolute paths - The issue: only one context can be accessed. Specifics: - Tomcat version: 7.0.12 - Context: multiple, different names (i.e. ACon.xml, BCon2.xml, etc.),path - different, everything else - identical, deployed in the same directory (meta- inf) - the name 'context.xml' MUST be present - other context files accepted but ignored - The Manager indicates only one application available, located at the path of the 'context.xml' - Errors generated if there are more then 1 (one) context / file (i.e. context.xml) - the war file: contains all contexts - we are using NetBeans for development and we haven't had any problems with the two integrated platforms We would appreciate if you can have a look at it when you have a minute and let us know. We assume we make some kind of mistake. Best regards, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
