On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 18:23 -0800, Peter Smillie wrote: > According to the Tomcat 5.5 documentation page > "tomcat-docs/config/context.html#Introduction" when Tomcat is trying to > decide on the context for a Web application: > > Only if a context file does not exist for the application in the > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/; in an individual file at > /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files. If the web application is > packaged as a WAR then /META-INF/context.xml will be copied to > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ and renamed to match the > application's context path. Once this file exists, it will not be replaced if > a new WAR with a newer /META-INF/context.xml is placed in the host's appBase. > > My experience with Tomcat 5.5 is that the META-INF/context.xml file in the > MyApp.war file is always overwriting > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/MyApp.xml. Thus I always lose my > site specific context customisation of Resources and the like. > > Previously I have used Tomcat 5.0 and in that case the above Tomcat > documentation statement held true, i.e. after an application's WAR was > installed for the first time I could then customise the context file in > directory $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ and it would not be > overwritten. > > Has anyone else had the same experience ? Can anyone explain how to change > the behaviour of Tomcat 5.5. > > Regards > Peter Smillie > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________
Peter, What is the exact version of Tomcat 5.5 that you are using? Dan
