On 08/08/2011 13:11, jenskreidler wrote: > > First of all thanks for the rapid answers and your time! > I think I did not describe the scenario correctly, so I do this now: > > Assume you have a tomcat 'multiple-instances' setup like this > /srv/tomcat/instance-1/ > /srv/tomcat/instance-2/ > ... > /srv/tomcat/instance-n/ > > Every instance dir is a full tomcat "CATALINA_BASE" directory with > + instance-i > | > +- conf > +- logs > +- temp > +- webapps > +- work > > A continuous integration shell-script copies to any instance (1..n) a built > .war-file whose filename-suffix varies on application, version, timestamp > and build-id. The scripts copies the .war into the instance-i/webapps > directory via cp over ssh in the intranet. > > My question is how to mount the .war-file 'dynamically' as the instance's > root context application? > > Currently all .war builds have a fixed name, assume myapp-3.2.war, and all > server.xml's in any instance-i/conf do have the section: > <Context path="" docBase="myapp-3.2" /> > > That way it is guaranteed, that the myapp-3.2.war is started up and mounted > as the tomcat instances' root context. > > However, is it possible by a clever configuration, to deploy any > war-filename to any instance-i/webapps directory, so that the war - > regardless of its filename - is mounted at the instance's root context?
With the current code? No. This comes up often enough that an enhancement along these lines is likely to be accepted *but* any enhancement is going to have to be a) compatible with the current options b) not re-introduce any of the problems with auto deployment that the current implementation was designed to avoid. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
